The EPA provides the expertise, technical capability and information essential to the protection of people and the environment through targeted environmental monitoring, research to assess the sources of radiation exposure and maintains the capability to assess the radiological impact when new sources of radiation dose are identified.
Specifically, the monitoring programme assesses:
The results of the monitoring show that, while the levels of artificial radioactivity in the Irish environment remain detectable, they are low and do not pose a significant risk to human health.