Yesterday was World Ocean Day - looking at the future challenges facing this life-sustaining resource. The UK Governments are committed to preventing pollution of the marine environment from ionising radiation, with the ultimate aim of reducing concentrations in the environment to near background values for naturally occurring radioactive substances and close to zero for artificial radioactive substances. Therefore a programme of surveillance into the distribution of key radionuclides was maintained using research vessels and other means of sampling. The seawater surveys report supports international studies concerned with the quality status of coastal seas.

Read the full article taken from Radioactivity in Food and the Environment, published October 2015 (RIFE 20) here.