Radioactivity in Fish- Dictionary (English, TXT)

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2025-05-28

Since the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear accident, the Radiation Protection Bureau (RPB) of Health Canada has performed several analyses of the radioactive content of fish samples from Canada’s west coast. RPB is making the results of these measurements available in three separate, publicly accessible files. The first series of measurements (Radioactivity in Fish- 2011-2012 -Data) was done in collaboration with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) at the onset of the emergency in Japan. The next set of measurements (Radioactivity in Fish- 2013 -Data) was done in collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada as part of a research and development project that led to a peer reviewed publication (A Report on Radioactivity Measurements of Fish Samples from the West Coast of Canada, Radiation protection dosimetry, 2014, http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/05/01/rpd.ncu150.full). The last series of measurements (Radioactivity in Fish- 2014 -Data) are part of the ongoing Integrated Fukushima Ocean Radionuclide Monitoring (InFORM) project. The InFORM is a collaborative radiation monitoring network aimed at assessing and communicating the potential environmental impact to…

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