Monitoring by the UK Atomic Energy Authority has overlooked raised levels of
radiation around the nuclear research facility at Harwell in Oxfordshire. A
survey by the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre in East Kilbride
detected gamma rays 300 metres beyond the perimeter fence. Anyone spending two
hours a day by the fence for a year would receive more than the recommended
maximum radiation dose of 0.3 millisieverts.
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