Dalgety Bay reports
Radioactive items have been detected on Dalgety Bay since at least 1990. Many surveys have been undertaken on the beach to determine the potential numbers of items present and possible implications for public health.
| Management options |
|---|
| Strategy for stakeholder engagement PDF (25 kb) |
| DIO outline management options appraisal - final report PDF (2.57mb) |
|
Dalgety Bay appropriate person summary PDF (11.2kb) Dalgety Bay appropriate person report PDF (3.5mb)
|
| Radiological habits survey: Dalgety Bay, 2012 PDF (3.19mb) |
| Dalgety Bay radioactive contaminated land risk assessment PDF (2.48mb) |
Dalgety Bay final factual investigation report |
Dalgety Bay coastal processes review |
| Historic aerial photography interpretation for assisting regulatory enforcement PDF (15 mb) |
| Dalgety Bay 2012 dose assessment report PDF (956kb) |
| Ground penetrating radar report March 2012 PDF (12.89mb) |
| Dalgety Bay particle composition PDF (2.4mb) |
Dalgety Bay investigation plan PDF (492kb)
|
| Dalgety Bay headland investigation PDF (3.6mb) |
| Dalgety Bay assessment PDF (2.7mb) |
| Dalgety Bay skin hazard assessment PDF (2.1mb) |
| Response to Defence Estates’ action plan PDF (146kb) |
| Skin dose from Ra-226 contamination: Dose estimation & comments PDF (522kb) |
| Dalgety Bay radium contamination PDF (20mb) Preliminary assessment produced by Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) Environmental and Organisational Strategy Directorate |
| Dalgety Bay risk assessment report PDF (2.78mb) Probabilistic and Hazard Assessment: A Screening Assessment of Radium Contamination |
| Probability assessment methodology - Appendix C PDF (148kb) Probabilistic and Hazard Assessment: A Screening Assessment of Radium Contamination. This report presents the results and methodology used to assess the risk posed by an area of land in Fife that is contaminated with radium, thought to have been generated by previous Ministry of Defence activities in the years preceding WWII. |
|
SEPA have undertaken a monitoring programme since radioactive materials were first discovered in the area and radioactive material has been removed periodically. In addition, many surveys have been undertaken on the beach to determine the potential numbers of items present and possible implications for public health. Dalgety Bay monitoring removal report - April 2006 PDF (5.3mb) Information about the distribution of radioactive particles across the foreshore and in the exposed cliff face believed to be the contamination source. This report contains the results of radiation surveys undertaken at Dalgety Bay in Fife during March 2006. |
| Dalgety Bay monitoring report - March 2005 PDF (435kb) Radiological survey of beach and foreshore for contamination of Radium 226. |
Reports on sources recovered from the area |
Dalgety Bay Risk Assessment Group
| Dalgety Bay Risk Assessment Group meeting PDF (1.7mb) |
Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE)
| COMARE Fifteenth Report (2014) |