Environment radioactivity and ongoing surveilance programme in Turkey

Abstract

The ever going releases of radioactive substances to the environment have resulted in a global excess irradiation of all living organisms in the environment due to nuclear accidents, testing of nuclear weapons, discharges from the nuclear industry and the like. Eventually, activities like these increase the background radiation of the environment. National authorities need to decide in which parts of their territory and for which activities and working conditions it would be appropriate for doses from background radiation to be regarded as part of occupational exposure or even public exposure by continuously monitoring the environment.