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Radioactivity in surface and coastal waters of the British Isles, 1988 (1989)

Auteur	Min. Agr.Fish, G.J. Hunt
Datum	1989
Classificatie	2.05.0.00/26 (GROOT-BRITTANNIË - ALGEMEEN)
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l. Introduction

This report presents the results of the environmental monitoring programme carried 
out during 1988 by staff of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's 
(MAFF's) Directorate of Fisheries Research (DFR), Lowestoft. The monitoring 
programme supports MAFF'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 1988, the special monitoring programme was continued in connection with 
the accident at Chernobyl, USSR on 26 April 1986. An interim report of this 
programme for 1988 has already been published (MAFF, 1988). The present report 
gives summarised data for the whole of 1988, 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 
1988 are first summarised. Before the results are presented, an explanatory section 
gives details of methods of analysis and presentation and a sub-section explains how 
results are interpreted in terms of public radiation exposures.

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