Updated 2000-06-27
The benthic marine environment in Bylot Sound off the Thule Air Base was contaminated with ca. 1.4 TBq 239,240Pu (ca. 0.5 kg) in 1968. The site was revisited August 1997 aiming mainly at a new inventory estimate and at quantifying transfer to benthic biota.
This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project
Time frame
- Status
- Completed
- Project time span
- 1997 - 1998
- Data collection
- 1997 - 1997
- Data processing
- 1997 - 1997
- Data reporting
- not specified
Geography
- Regions studied
- Radioactivity TDC
- Stations or areas where observations are made
Thule district, Bylot Sound, Wolstenholme Fjord
Data availability
- Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?
- yes-all
- Data centres
- Radioactivity TDC
- Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
- No
Methods & Procedures
Not specified
Additional Information
- Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
- No