Comparison of environmental radiation monitoring programs in China and the United States.
The monitoring of environmental radiation has been carried out across the United States by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's RadNet (formerly the Environmental Radiation Ambient Monitoring System, ERAMS) and the Global Network Program (GNP) of the Environmental Measurements Laboratory (EML), and in the People's Republic of China (PRC) by their National Radioactivity Contamination Monitoring System (NRCMS). It is expected that an awareness of the similarities and differences in the structure and operation of these programs will prove helpful to both countries and perhaps others as they continue to develop their monitoring capabilities.
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Anthony B
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College of Health Sciences and College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA. wolbarst.anthony@uky.edu
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