Up to what distance from the atomic reactor, is radioactivity monitored? What are the methods used and safeguards provided?
Environmental Survey Laboratories are set up at nuclear power plant sites well before the reactors start operating. These laboratories investigate and establish the base line radioactivity levels in and around the site before the plant commences operation and then continue to monitor the area to ensure that there is no undue increase in radioactivity subsequently. The food and water pathways leading to radioactivity exposure by the population around the site are determined and monitoring methods are established to check that there is no increase in this exposure due to the power plant operations. An Environmental Survey Laboratory has been in operation at Kalpakkam since 1974 while the first MAPS reactor commenced operations only since 1983. The laboratory has investigated radioactivity levels in materials relevant to radiation exposure of humans (e.g. cereals, vegetables, milk, sea-food, water, air, salt etc). Monitoring of the radioactivity levels in these materials is done on Đ° cont
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