Motivation | Location |
Interest
in radioactivity measurements resulted in the past from the testing of
nuclear weapons and the proliferating nuclear power plants since the
1960s. Today, the topic has regained relevance after a missed energy turnaround to secure the energy demand, resulting in the further preservation and construction of more nuclear power plants and irresponsible politicians openly acting with a nuclear threat backdrop. The background ambient dose rate (ODL) refers to the radiation dose per unit of time that acts on a person from the outside. It is measured at a fixed location and expressed in the unit sievert or millisievert per hour. You can find the actual ambient dose rate value for Germany @ https://www.imis.bfs.de/geoportal/ and Switzerland @ https://www.ensi.ch/en/dose-rates. From these values, the expected ODL for SouthGermany/Switzerland is about 0.085 uSv/h. |