Projects

The INDOFERN Project (New indicator organisms for environmental radioactivity)
The INDOFERN (New indicator organisms for environmental radioactivity) project is one of several projects sponsored by the NKS (Nordic Nuclear Safety Research) that IFE has participated in. The objective of the project was to identify new indicator organisms and biomarkers for assessment of environmental radioactivity in various Nordic ecosystems (terrestrial, fresh water, marine) for normal and emergency situations.
FOREST (Guidance for sampling in forests for radionuclide analysis and update of the Nordic forest radioecology network)
IFE is co-ordinator for the project FOREST, one of several projects sponsored by the NKS (Nordic Nuclear Safety Research). The project was initiated in 2005 and the practical aims of the project are compilation of a sampling guide for radionuclide analysis of northern forests and to activate a network within Nordic forest radioecology.
The Norwegian Fucus Project
The main sources of radioactive pollution in Norwegian and Arctic waters the last 30 years are global fallout from nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere, routine discharges from the reprocessing facilities at Sellafield (UK) and Cap de la Hague (France), and the Chernobyl accident. The most important radionuclides are 137Cs, 99Tc, 90Sr and the plutonium isotopes 238Pu, 239Pu and 240Pu. In addition, seawater contains naturally occurring radionuclides as 40K, 210Po and other nuclides in the uranium and thorium series.
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