Radiation Monitoring


1	Location/Origin of Radiation	Data Source	Medium Monitored	Sampling For	Monitoring Equipment	Web Address

2	WORLDWIDE
3	All 7 Continents; Pacific Islands	World Radiation Monitoring Center - Baseline Surface Radiation Network				http://www.bsrn.awi.de/en/data/data_retrieval_via_pangaea/ http://www.pangaea.de/ddi?request=bsrn/BSRNEvent&format=html&title=BSRN+Stations
4	Worldwide	Private Citizens	Air	Alpha beta gamma	Black Cat Systems radiation detectors: either GM-10, GM-45, GM-50, or GM-90	http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html
5	Worldwide (primarily Japan)	Safecast	Air (1.5 meters off ground)			http://blog.safecast.org/
6	Worldwide	Fukushima Prefectural Government (synthesis of data by Safecast)	Air			http://fukushima-radioactivity.jp/world-mapsearch.php
7	AUSTRALIA
8	Australia	Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation		Gamma		http://www.ansto.gov.au/discovering_ansto/what_does_ansto_do/live_weather_and_pollution_data/environment_radiation_monitoring
9	ASIA
10	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Observatory Radiation Monitoring Network	Air	Gamma		http://www.hko.gov.hk/radiation/ermp/rmn/applet/map/rmn_latest_link_e.htm
11	EUROPE: ALPHABETICAL BY COUNTRY
12	European Union member states and other European nations	EURDEP (European Radiological Data Exchange Platform)	Air			http://eurdep.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Basic/Pages/Public/Home/Default.aspx
13	Austria	Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, and Water	Air			http://www.lebensministerium.at/umwelt/strahlen-atom/strahlenschutz/strahlen-warn-system/messwerte_aktuell.html
14	Czech Republic	National Radiation Protection Institute				http://www.suro.cz/cz/rms
15	Finland	Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK)	Air		255 External Dose Rate Monitoring Stations	http://www.stuk.fi/sateilytietoa/sateilytilanne/en_GB/sateilytilanne/
16	France (includes overseas territory)	Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)
17	France: Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, and Languedoc-Roussillon	CRIIRAD	Air			http://balisescriirad.free.fr/ (often difficult to access)
18	Germany	Federal Office for Radiation Protection	Air	Gamma		http://odlinfo.bfs.de/index.php?lang=EN
19	Hungary	National Directorate General for Disaster Management, Ministry of the Interior (NDGDM)				http://www.katasztrofavedelem.hu/index2.php?pageid=monitor_nbiek_index
20	Ireland	Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland	Precipitation Shellfish Fish Seaweed Marine Sediments Seawater Air (some real-time) Drinking Water Milk Foodstuffs			http://www.rpii.ie/Monitoring-Stations.aspx
21	Norway	Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority				http://radnett.nrpa.no/
22	Portugal	Portuguese Environmental Agency				http://sniamb.apambiente.pt/radnet/
23	Russia					http://www.russianatom.ru/
24	Slovenia					http://www.radioaktivnost.si/ewsmambo/EWS/POZDRAV/MZO_gmaps1.html
25	Switzerland	Federal Office for Civil Protection	Air			https://www.naz.ch/en/aktuell/tagesmittelwerte.shtml
26	JAPAN
27	Japan: food grown in Japan	Eden Foods has contracted with Eberline Analytical for radionuclide testing	Foodstuffs	Cesium-134 Cesium-137 Iodine-131	"High purity germanium detectors (N type) that measure all gamma photo emission energies present between 40-3000 keV. Their detectors are connected to a Canberra multi-channel analyzer system that is calibrated to energy per channel for nuclide identifications."	http://www.edenfoods.com/articles/view.php?articles_id=199
28	Japan:Nationwide	Disaster Prevention and Nuclear Safety Network for Nuclear Environment	Air			http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/index.html historical data accessible at: http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/index.html
29	Japan: Nationwide	Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology Japan	Air Drinking Water			http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/en/index.html (not all links are functional; "Monitoring by Prefecture" links are good)
30	Japan: Nationwide	Institute for Information Design Japan	Air (Most data updated hourly)			http://jciv.iidj.net/map/
31	Japan: Ports Nationwide	Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism (Some links in Japanese language only)	Air Sea water			http://www.mlit.go.jp/kowan/kowan_fr1_000041.html
32	Japan	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology	Air Fallout			http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/taisaku/en/measurement/index.html
33	Japan	Various	Various			http://www.simplyinfo.org/?page_id=5468
34	Japan	Japanese Government Prefecture Radiation Readings? (Japanese language only; this may not be veritable government information)				http://new.atmc.jp/
35	Japan: Various Locations	Ministry of the Environment Japan (Japanese language only)				http://housyasen.taiki.go.jp/
36	Japan: Fukushima Prefecture	Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring Center of Fukushima (Japanese Language Only)				http://www.atom-moc.pref.fukushima.jp/dynamic/C0002-PC.html
37	Japan: Fukushima Prefecture	Radiation Measurements at Soma and Onahama Ports in Fukushima Prefecture (Japanese Language Only)				http://wwwcms.pref.fukushima.jp/pcp_portal/PortalServlet?DISPLAY_ID=DIRECT&NEXT_DISPLAY_ID=U000004&CONTENTS_ID=10877
38	Japan: Haneda Airport, Narita Airport	Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism	Air			http://www.mlit.go.jp/koku/koku_tk7_000003.html
39	Japan: Hokkaido	Bureau of Emergency Response and Industries, Department of Economic Affairs, Hokkaido Government	Air (1 meter above ground)			http://monitoring-hokkaido.info/index.php?lang=en
40	Japan: Hokkaido	Hokkaido Institute of Public Health	Air Fallout Tap Water Airborne Dust			http://www.iph.pref.hokkaido.jp/eiken_housyanou/eiken_housyanou.htm
41	Japan: Ibaraki Prefecture		Air Rice Drinking Water Milk Fruits Vegetables			http://ibarakey.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/radiation-updates-32/
42	Japan: Miyagi Prefecture	Radiation Information Site Miyagi		Air Tap Water Agricultural Forest Marine Products		http://www.r-info-miyagi.jp/r-info/en/
43	Japan: Tsukuba, Ibaraki	University of Tsukuba	Air			http://www.tsukuba.ac.jp/english/topics/isotope.html
44	Japan: Tsukuba, Ibaraki	National Institute for Materials Science	Air (1 meter off ground)		NaI scintillation counter ALOKA TCS-172B
45	Japan: Yokohama	Atmospheric and Seawater Radiation at Yokohama Port	Air Sea water Export Containers			http://www.yokohamaport.co.jp.e.df.hp.transer.com/radiation/yokohama/

1

Location/Origin of Radiation

Data Source

Medium Monitored

Sampling For

Monitoring Equipment

Web Address

2

WORLDWIDE

3

All 7 Continents; Pacific Islands

World Radiation Monitoring Center - Baseline Surface Radiation Network

http://www.bsrn.awi.de/en/data/data_retrieval_via_pangaea/

http://www.pangaea.de/ddi?request=bsrn/BSRNEvent&format=html&title=BSRN+Stations

4

Worldwide

Private Citizens

Air

Alpha
beta
gamma

Black Cat Systems radiation detectors: either GM-10, GM-45, GM-50, or GM-90

http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html

5

Worldwide (primarily Japan)

Safecast

Air (1.5 meters off ground)

http://blog.safecast.org/

6

Worldwide

Fukushima Prefectural Government (synthesis of data by Safecast)

Air

http://fukushima-radioactivity.jp/world-mapsearch.php

7

AUSTRALIA

8

Australia

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Gamma

http://www.ansto.gov.au/discovering_ansto/what_does_ansto_do/live_weather_and_pollution_data/environment_radiation_monitoring

9

ASIA

10

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Observatory Radiation Monitoring Network

Air

Gamma

http://www.hko.gov.hk/radiation/ermp/rmn/applet/map/rmn_latest_link_e.htm

11

EUROPE: ALPHABETICAL BY COUNTRY

12

European Union member states and other European nations

EURDEP (European Radiological Data Exchange Platform)

Air

http://eurdep.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Basic/Pages/Public/Home/Default.aspx

13

Austria

Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, and Water

Air

http://www.lebensministerium.at/umwelt/strahlen-atom/strahlenschutz/strahlen-warn-system/messwerte_aktuell.html

14

Czech Republic

National Radiation Protection Institute

http://www.suro.cz/cz/rms

15

Finland

Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK)

Air

255 External Dose Rate Monitoring Stations

http://www.stuk.fi/sateilytietoa/sateilytilanne/en_GB/sateilytilanne/

16

France (includes overseas territory)

Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)

17

France: Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, and Languedoc-Roussillon

CRIIRAD

Air

http://balisescriirad.free.fr/
(often difficult to access)

18

Germany

Federal Office for Radiation Protection

Air

Gamma

http://odlinfo.bfs.de/index.php?lang=EN

19

Hungary

National Directorate General for Disaster Management, Ministry of the Interior (NDGDM)

http://www.katasztrofavedelem.hu/index2.php?pageid=monitor_nbiek_index

20

Ireland

Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland

Precipitation
Shellfish
Fish
Seaweed
Marine Sediments
Seawater
Air (some real-time)
Drinking Water
Milk
Foodstuffs

http://www.rpii.ie/Monitoring-Stations.aspx

21

Norway

Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority

http://radnett.nrpa.no/

22

Portugal

Portuguese Environmental Agency

http://sniamb.apambiente.pt/radnet/

23

Russia

http://www.russianatom.ru/

24

Slovenia

http://www.radioaktivnost.si/ewsmambo/EWS/POZDRAV/MZO_gmaps1.html

25

Switzerland

Federal Office for Civil Protection

Air

https://www.naz.ch/en/aktuell/tagesmittelwerte.shtml

26

JAPAN

27

Japan: food grown in Japan

Eden Foods has contracted with Eberline Analytical for radionuclide testing

Foodstuffs

Cesium-134
Cesium-137
Iodine-131

"High purity germanium detectors (N type) that measure all gamma photo emission energies present between 40-3000 keV. Their detectors are connected to a Canberra multi-channel analyzer system that is calibrated to energy per channel for nuclide identifications."

http://www.edenfoods.com/articles/view.php?articles_id=199

28

Japan:Nationwide

Disaster Prevention and Nuclear Safety Network for Nuclear Environment

Air

http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/index.html
historical data accessible at:
http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/index.html

29

Japan: Nationwide

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology Japan

Air
Drinking Water

http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/en/index.html
(not all links are functional; "Monitoring by Prefecture" links are good)

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