Publications

This report describes work carried out between 2015 and 2019 within the regulatory cooperation program of the DSA and the Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia, with support of the Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center. The work is set into the context of the long-term regulatory cooperation program that began in 2001.

It is possible to establish a direct link between the use of medical radioisotopes at the University Hospital of North Norway and observations of activity concentrations of the same radioisotopes in sewage and in the case of iodine-131 (I-131) in the brown seaweed Fucus vesiculosus in the marine environment around Tromsø. This study estimates biological half lifes of I-131 in F. vesiculosus, excretion rates of medical radioisotopes from patients as well as biota and human dose exposures

The report has considered potential accidents related to the Russian nuclear submarines K-27 and K-159. The radiological assessment is based on a wide set of radionuclides.

DSA and the Polessie State Radiation – Ecology Reserve (PSRER) of the Republic of Belarus, the responsible authority for management of the Belarusian exclusion zone, have collaborated actively over the past 10 years with respect to the consequences of the Chernobyl Accident on the territory of Belarus.

This report presents results of monitoring of radioactivity in sea water, sediment and biota collected in Norwegian waters in 2015, 2016 and 2017.