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Ionisierende Strahlung

Ground-based measurement exercises

The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) is responsible for the large-scale determination of the ambient gamma dose rate (gamma ODL) and the radioactivity at ground surface. For this purpose, measurement vehicles are ready for use at all BfS locations. These vehicles are either employed for in situ measurement or the determination of the gamma ODL. To ensure that they are ready for use, annual measurement exercises are performed in different areas in Germany and also abroad. Up to today, there has been one radiological emergency response exercise in Germany in 2014 and 2015, respectively, to determine radiation exposure in selected areas.

Handmessgerät zur Messung der Ortsdosisleistung vor dem Reaktor von Tschernobyl. Das Display zeigt einen Wert von 3,04 Mikrosievert pro Stunde.

Measurement exercise 2016 in Ukraine

From 26 to 29 September 2016, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection conducted a measurement exercise together with the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine in the 30-kilometre-zone around the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl (Ukraine). During the exercise, the BfS was supported by the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management and the Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology. In addition to the training of radioactivity measurements under particular conditions, the measurement exercise contributed to updating the characterisation of the radiological situation around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

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In-Situ-Gammaspektrometer

Photo gallery: Measurement exercise 2016 in Chernobyl, Ukraine

From 26 to 29 September 2016, staff members of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) conducted a measurement exercise together with colleagues from the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine in the exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. Daniel Esch, a physicist at the BfS, reported for us about the exercise in his online diary. Here are some more impressions.

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Die Teilnehmer der Messübung vor dem Reaktor

Online diary: Measurement exercise Chernobyl 2016

Practising for an emergency: Dr. Daniel Esch is a physicist at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS). He reported about a measurement exercise for us conducted by the BfS together with the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine from 26 to 29 September 2016 in the 30-km-zone around the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

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