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Environmental monitoring in Italy following the nuclear emergency in Japan

Since the 12' of March the Italian National Institute for the Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) requested the national network of laboratories for the surveillance of the environmental radioactivity belonging to Regional and Provincial Environmental Agencies to intensify the environmental radiological monitoring activities with specific regard to radioactivity concentration measurements In air and in the fallout. Starting from March 23rd measurement results showed the presence of 1-131 in small concentrations. Analysis of vegetable and milk were therefore also requested. Table I summarizes the number of performed measurements until April
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Table 2 reports a synthesis of the measurements results grouped for the three macro-region (North, Central and South Italy) and referred to minimum and maximum concentration values detected.

Table I

Airborne particulate Total Fallout Milk Leaf Vegetables Other Vegetables (Forage)

Cs-137 1-131 Cs-137 1-131 Cs-137 1-131 Cs-137 1-131 Cs-137 1-131

863 936 100 117 56 62 37 41 30 38

37 343 4 76 5 39 24 7 30

MDA: Minimum Detectable Activity

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Airborne particulate (Bq/m3) Iodine gas fraction (Bq/m3)

IT-Nord IT-Center IT-Sud IT-Nord IT-Center IT-Sud IT-Nord IT-Center IT-Sud IT-Nord IT-Center IT-Sud

2.84E-05 1.52E-05 3.64E-04 9.20E-05

1.43E-03 1.61E-03 3.10E-03 2.20E-03 < MDA

30/03/2011 08/04/2011 29/03/2011 06/04/2011

6.80E-06 1.90E-05
4.70E&04

5.50E-05 2.40E-04
1.20E-03

09/04/2011 05/04/2011 08/04/2011

1.20E-03 5.80E-02 3.89E-01 6.30E-01 4.OOE-02 1.42E-01 2.90E-01 2.39E-01

3.90E-03 1.96E+01 2.54E+01 2.10E+01 7.97E-01 2.80E-01 2.90E-01 2.10E+00

30/03/2011 30/03/2011 29/03/2011 29/03/2011 31/03/2011 12/04/2011 07/04/2011 05/04/2011 30/03/2011 05/04/2011 05/04/2011 12/04/2011 2.95E-01 4.32E-01 1.29E-01 6.33E-02 7.OOE-02 1.OOE-02 3.OOE-02 7.58E-02 3.OOE-02 < MDA 1.33E+00 < MDA < MDA 1.58E+01 4.32E-01 NO DATA 2.17E-01 1.34E-01 < MDA 11/04/2011 12/04/2011 04/04/2011 12/04/2011 01/04/2011 11/04/2011 04/04/2011

(Bq/m2)

(Bq/Kg)

Other Vegetables (Forage) (Bq/Kg) Milk (Bq/I)

IT-Nord IT-Center IT-Sud IT-Nord IT-Center IT-Sud

2.80E+00 8.23E-01 NO DATA 1.03E-01 9.65E-02 1.41E-01 1.70E+00 5.24E+00 2.27E+00

When Cs-134 was measured the ratio Cs-134 / Cs-137 ranged between 0.51 and 1.29, arithmetic mean 0.86

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