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Environmental Gamma doserates are monitored continuously, by a government-operated network, at altogether 111 points in the vincinity of 5 nuclear power stations. Three of them are located in the German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg, and two in the neighbouring countries France and Switzerland.
The local measuring stations are equipped with microprocessors for data evaluation, storage, and transfer through postal datex lines to a central main computer. This main computer, located at Karlsruhe, includes meteorologic and source-related data of the German power plants and is able to calculate and predict, in case of any radioactive release from one of those plants, the development of the situation and the radiological impact on the environment and the population. This computer again is linked to a terminal in the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment in the state capital of Stuttgart.
Additionally, those 24 stations monitoring the doserate in the vincinity of the foreign power plants are transmitting their data to two satellite computers located at Freiburg, a regional sub-capital in the southwestern part of the country. The satellite computers are providing printouts of the realtime dosimetric data for the regional public safety authorities.
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Maushart, R. The use of computers in the environmental doserate monitoring network of Baden-Württemberg (Germany, F.R.). Acta Physica Hungarica 59, 47–50 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03055184
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03055184