Online radiation monitoring
The new Norwegian radiation monitoring system includes 11 locations in northern Norway and Svalbard. Radiation-levels are updated every hour and easily available for everyone on the Radnett web.
Radnett includes all monitoring stations in Norway and was recently made public accessible via web by the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authorities.
There are two monitoring stations close to Russian territory, one in Vardø and one at the Svanhovd Environmental Centre in the Pasvik Valley. You can click in and check the latest updated radiation levels. Also, it is possible to see historical data’s and trends for radiation during a certain time-period.
Norway was the last of the four Barents countries to go online with the radiation monitoring system. The monitoring system in northern Finland includes far more radiation monitoring stations than the entire Norwegian system. Only in Lapland, there are 35 monitoring stations, many of them close to the Russian border. There are also monitoring stations in the other parts of northern Finland like, Norra Ostrobothnia and Kainuu.
The constantly monitored radiation levels in Finland are coordinated by STUK, the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authorities.
The Swedish network is available at the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, while the Russian network only includes the 31 observant stations on the Kola Peninsula, made available by Department for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring.
Nuclear safety has been a prioritised area for the international collaboration in the Barents Region since the beginning.
