Abstract:
In the past twenty years, a continuous supervision monitoring of environmental radioactivity level around Qinshan NPP (QNPP) Base was carried out by Zhejiang Province Radiation Environmental Monitoring Center. The monitoring results show that the γ radiation dose rate around QNPP Base, the activity concentration of gross α, gross β,
40K, and
137Cs in aerosol samples, the gross β daily settlement in fallout, the activity concentration of
14CO
2 in air, the activity concentration of gross α, gross β,
90Sr, and
137Cs in environmental freshwater (drinking water, lake water and well water), the average-specific activity of
238U,
232Th,
226Ra, and
137Cs in soils, and the average specific activity of
40K,
137Cs,
90Sr, and
14C in edible plants, are not abnormal. The radionuclide contents in those samples are of the same levels compared with the background values before the operation of QNPP Base and the monitored values of Hangzhou reference site. However, the activity concentrations of
3H in air, rain water, drinking water, pond water, sea water of discharge site, and terrestrial plants are higher than the monitored values of Hangzhou reference site, and in some medium the activity concentrations of
3H outclass that of background around QNPP Base. The results indicate that after 20 years operation of QNPP Base, especially after the third phase heavy water reactors operation commercially, the external environment around QNPP Base has been affected by
3H in radioactive effluent.