Environmental monitoring program at cernavoda nuclear power plant environmental radiation monitoring data for Cernavoda NPP march 1996 to december 1998

To ensure that public health and the environment are adequately protected, it is Cernavoda NPP'policy to design and to operate nuclear electric generating facilities so that the public radiation dose limits are not exceeded. The environmental monitoring program for Cernavoda NPP was established based on the canadian experience and the romanian and international standards. About 2000 samples were analysed from March 1996 to December 1998 in order to monitor environmental radiation around the Cernavoda NPP and across the region in general (about 30 km around Cernavoda). The sample types were: air (particulate, iodine, water vapours), soil, wet deposition, food (fish, pork, beef, poultry, vegetables and fruits). No gamma emitting radionuclides other than those occurring in nature (K-40 and Be-7) were detected in all these samples. Tritium was detected in air samples, collected at locations near the plant. All the results demonstrate that the operation of Cernavoda NPP during first three years did not affect the natural radioactivity of the surrounding environment.