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In order to protect the population from incidents in nuclear facilities following a natural disaster, accident, or attack, a rapid and independent determination of the dose rate is essential. In addition to protecting the population, this also serves for the safety of the environment.
In 2021, an online measurement network for monitoring ambient dose rate was put into operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The State Regulatory Authority for Radiation and Nuclear Safety of Bosnia and Herzegovina (DARNS) is the owner of this system. This measurement network consists of 11 probes for measuring gamma dose rate and a central server that manages and displays the online data.
The European Union financed the expansion of the system with 12 additional gamma dose rate probes and two spectroscopic probes to densify the measurement network. The data from these 14 additional probes are processed by the same server under the control of DARNS.
