Limits
For the assessment of possible health risks, the measured values are compared with the immission limit values.
Tritium monitoring in rivers and rainwater
Tritium is a pure beta emitter of low energy. It is therefore not measurable by gamma spectrometry, the most widely used technique for monitoring radioactivity in the environment, and is therefore also ‘invisible’ to the URAnet aqua automatic river water radioactivity network.
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Soil, Grass
Organizations and collaborations
The Environmental Radioactivity Unit (URA) is the federal agency responsible for coordinating the national environmental radioactivity monitoring programme. The annual sampling and measurement plan indicates which samples are to be taken and measured.
Food products
The URA group collaborates with the cantons in order to monitor the radioactivity in foodstuffs. …….