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Annually since 1989, biannually since 1994 the sites of the Swiss nuclear facilities (4 power plant sites, a nuclear research institute and a waste storage facility) are surveyed flying the same survey lines by airborne gamma ray spectrometry. The equipment and the data processing software used for those surveys was built and developed at the Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich. For mapping the ground radiation around the nuclear facilities a pixel representation and a modified Spectrum Dose Index (SDI) method is used. In the search for long-term trends the local dose-rates are calculated first and in turn the net dose rates over the time span 1992 – 2010. So far no significant change in the radiation levels was detected over the last 18 years outside of the fenced sites of the nuclear facilities, except for the operation of an industrial radiation facility in 1995.
From B. Bucher | L. Rybach | G. Schwarz
(Received 18.02.2012)
Appeared in Kerntechnik 2012/03, Page 163-167
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