Updated 2000-10-23
To investigate the impacts of Russia's military and civilian nuclear activities in the Kola Bay and adjacent areas of the northwest Arctic coast of Russia.
This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project
Time frame
- Status
- Ongoing
- Project time span
- 1995 -
- Data collection
- 1995 -
- Data processing
- 1997 -
- Data reporting
- not specified
Data availability
- Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?
- yes-partly
- Data centres
- Radioactivity TDC
References to key publications (or planned publications) and data reports
Matishov, G.G., Matishov, D.G., Namjatov, A.A., Carroll, J. and Dahle, S. 2000. Discharges of nuclear waste into the Kola Bay and its impact on human radiological doses. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 48:5-21.
Matishov, G.G., Matishov, D.G., Namjatov, A.A., Carroll, J. and Dahle, S. 1999. Anthropogenic radionuclides in the Kola and Motovsky Bays of the Barents Sea. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 43:77-88.
- Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
- No
Methods & Procedures
- Procedures and methodology used for, e.g., sampling and sample storage, sample pretreatment, extraction and analysis, including which laboratories are involved, references to methods employed, etc.
Methods information is available from the primary publications for this work
- QA/QC Information (what QA/QC procedures are implemented, laboratories involvment in QA/QC activities, model verification/validation routines, etc.)
Intercalibration with IAEA standards
Additional Information
- Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
- Yes
- Other institutes involved in the project
Murmansk Marine Biological Institute