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Radioactivity in surface and coastal waters of the British Isles, 1987 (1988)

Auteur	Min. Agr.Fish, G.J. Hunt
Datum	1988
Classificatie	2.05.0.00/25 (GROOT-BRITTANNIË - ALGEMEEN)
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1. Introduction

This report presents the results of the environmental monitoring programme carried 
out during 1987 by staff of the Directorate of Fisheries Research, Lowestoft. The 
monitoring programme supports the Ministry's functions under the Radioactive 
Substances Act, 1960 (Great Britain- Parliament, 1960). The programme is set up to 
verify the satisfactory control of liquid radioactive waste discharges to the aquatic 
environment, and to ensure that the resulting public radiation exposure is within 
nationally-accepted limits. The monitoring is independent of similar programmes 
carried out by nuclear site operators as a condition of their authorisations to 
discharge radioactive wastes. This report also includes results of monitoring carried 
out on behalf of departments of the Scottish Office, the Welsh Office, the Department 
of the Environment for Northern Ireland [DOE (NI)] and the Channel Islands States. 
Where appropriate, the information presented is supplemented by results from our 
extensive
programme of research into the behaviour of radioactivity in the aquatic environment.

During 1987, the special programme was continued in connection with the accident 
at Chernobyl, USSR on 26 April1986. An interim report of this programme for 1987 
has already been published (MAFF, 1987). The present report gives summarised data 
for the whole of 1987, relevant both to regular discharges of radioactive wastes and 
to fallout from Chernobyl, with the aim of presenting a balanced picture for the 
complete year. Results are presented within the usual format of monitoring around 
nuclear sites, except for additional monitoring of radioactivity from Chernobyl in 
the freshwater environment which is dealt with in a separate section.

To set the monitoring results from our regular programme in context, liquid 
radioactive discharges from UK nuclear establishments to the aquatic environment 
in 1987 are first summarised. Before the results are presented, an explanatory 
sub-section gives details of methods of analysis and presentation and a further sub-
section explains how results are interpreted in terms of public radiation exposures.

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