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The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) has compiled impressions on various topics in picture galleries. It provides these images for editorial use in online and print media free of charge. The terms of use laid down in the Legal notice apply.

The ruins are surrounded by rusty building cranes

2018 Measurement exercise in Chornobyl, Ukraine

In September 2018, BfS employees trained in mobile radioactivity measurements in the radioactively contaminated exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant in Chornobyl. In addition to a video diary, pictures document the exercise in Ukraine.

Helicopter of the federal police force flying over the area around Zurich

Helicopter measuring excercises

Radioactive substances deposited on the ground can be determined quickly and flexibly without having to enter highly contaminated areas: Pictures show how BfS and Federal Police practice measuring radioactivity from a helicopter in an emergency.

 In-Situ-Gammaspektrometer

Measurement exercise 2016 in Chornobyl, Ukraine

At the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, BfS employees practiced measuring radioactivity together with the Ukrainian nuclear regulator in September 2016. Their activities in describing the radiological situation are shown in a diary and pictures.

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