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    • Frontpage
    • SERVICES AND GUIDANCE
      • E-services and forms
      • Applying for a safety licence for the use of radiation
        • Fees for radiation practices regulation
        • Issuing authorizations for dealing with STUK
      • STUK's measurement and calibration services
        • Measurement for radioactivity in samples
          • Measurement methods and delivery times
          • Indoor air radon measurements
        • Radiation meter calibrations and testing and irradiation
          • Metrological activities
          • Quality system
        • Measurements, tests and calibrations of non-ionizing radiation
        • PCXMC − Monte Carlo program for calculating patient doses from x-ray examinations
        • Fees for STUK's services and general terms of delivery
      • Legislation and guides
        • STUK's regulatory guides and decisions
          • YVL Guides
          • VAL Guides
        • STUK's regulations
        • Renewal of the nuclear safety regulation
      • Report a radiation safety deviation
      • Open data
      • Calculation tools
        • AASI - Program for simulating energy spectra in alpha spectrometry
    • RADIATION IN DAILYLIFE
      • What is radiation?
      • About Radon
        • Radon in Finland
        • Reference levels and regulations concerning radon in dwellings
        • Sources of Radon
        • Measuring radon
        • Radon mitigation
        • Radon in new buildings
        • Maps of radon in Finland
        • About radon regulation in general
        • National action plan to prevent radon risks
        • Radon causes lung cancer
      • Electromagnetic fields
        • Base stations
        • Electricity grids and power lines
      • Sun's UV radiation
        • What is UV radiation?
        • Ultraviolet radiation causes skin cancer
        • Protect yourself properly from the sun
        • Shade protects against UV radiation
      • Beauty care and sunbeds
        • Radiation in beauty care
        • Sunbeds
        • Learning game
      • Use of radiation in medicine
      • Environmental radiation
        • Monitoring of environment radiation
        • Radiation today on the map
        • Radiation in Europe - Eurdep
        • Radioactivity in outdoor air
        • Radioactivity of the deposition
          • The effects of the Chernobyl accident in Finland
          • Nuclear tests in the atmosphere
        • Food control
          • Radioactivity of milk
          • Radioactivity in sold natural produce
          • Daily food and drink
        • Radioactivity of drinking water
          • Wastes from removal of radioactive substances from domestic water
        • Radioactivity in the Baltic Sea
        • Radioactivity in surface water
        • Radioactivity in human body
          • Determination of radioactive subtances in the body
          • The average radiation dose received by a Finn
        • Mushrooms 2025 campaign
      • Laser products
      • Health effects of radiation
      • How do healthcare and industry utilize radiation?
      • Radioactivity in consumer products
      • Radiation in appliances
      • Ultrasound
    • RADIATION SAFETY
      • Nuclear safety
        • Regulatory oversight of nuclear facilities
          • Loviisa nuclear power plant
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            • Olkiluoto 3
          • Encapsulation and final disposal facility
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          • Small modular reactors
          • Talvivaara mine
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        • Information on nuclear waste
          • Taking care of nuclear waste
        • Peaceful uses of nuclear energy
      • For the user of radiation
        • Occupational radiation exposure and health surveillance
        • Prerequisites for a safety licence
        • STUK supervises radiation practices
        • Radiation protection training and qualifications
        • Radiation measurements and approvals
        • Radiation safety deviations
          • Anonymized radiation safety deviations
          • Analysis of minor deviations (health care)
          • Analysis of more significant deviations (health care)
        • Guidelines for different sectors
          • Veterinary X-ray practices
          • Trade, import and export of radioactive materials and consumer products
          • Aviation
          • Radioactive waste and discharges
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          • Radiation shielding of X-ray rooms in health care and veterinary practice
          • Dental X-ray practices
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        • Medical examinations and the resulting radiation exposure
          • Surveys
        • Warning signs
        • Beauty care and sunbed services
          • Information for professionals in the beauty care industry
          • Information for professionals in the sunbed services
          • Supervision of beauty care and sunbed services
        • Laser performances
      • Practice that causes exposure to natural radiation
        • What is practice that causes exposure to natural radiation
        • Radon at workplace
          • Areas where radon measurement in workplace is obligatory
          • Workplace radon concentrations in Finland
          • Workplaces built on highly permeable soils, where radon measurement in the workplace is required
          • Radon concentration during working hours
          • STUKs monitoring projects at workplaces
        • Radon in other premises used by people
        • Radon in underground mines and at excavation sites
        • Monitoring of radioactivity in household water
        • The radioactivity of building materials and ash
        • Industrial practices involving exposure to natural radiation - NORM
          • Obligation to report exposure to natural radiation - NORM
          • Waste containing naturally occurring radioactive materials
      • Preparedness for radiation hazards
        • Finns are protected
        • Authorities cooperate in the event of a radiation hazard situation
        • What could threaten Finland?
          • Dirty bomb
          • Depleted uranium
          • Nuclear weapons
        • Actions in a radiation hazard situation
          • Information sources for members of the public
          • Instructions for members of the public
          • Sheltering indoors reduces radiation exposure
          • The iodine tablet protects the thyroid gland
          • Preventing health effects of radiation
          • Radiation measurements
          • The voluntary radiation measurement team strengthens Finland's measurement capacity
        • Abnormal events related to radiation
          • The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale INES
    • CURRENT ISSUES
      • Press releases and news
      • STUK Blog
      • Subscribe STUK's news articles
      • Publications
      • Newsletter
      • Information for media
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      • Situation in Ukraine
    • ABOUT STUK
      • Get to know STUK
        • Tasks
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        • STUK as a workplace
          • STUK career stories: Elina works as a local inspector at the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant
        • Annual reviews
          • Year 2024 in STUK
            • Director General’s review
            • STUK’s Finances 2024
            • We strive for radiation-safe well-being
            • Employee well-being and employee experience at a good level
            • A year of developing preparedness
            • The use of nuclear energy carried out safely — the regulatory reform is progressing
            • Two decades of learning in the nuclear industry — anniversary of the YJK course
            • STUK’s supervision ensured the safety of radiation practices
            • Radiation measurement data for 2024
            • Radiation safety data and tools: 2024 research projects
            • International co-operation has a clear direction and purpose
        • Equality and non-discrimination
        • Sustainability and responsibility
        • Planning and monitoring
        • International reviews of STUK's operations
        • Advisory Committees
      • Networks and Co-operations
        • Cores - Finnish consortium of radiation safety research
          • National Radiation Safety Research Programme
          • European collaboration
        • PrISMA project
        • MetroPOEM project
        • iViolin - guidance for optimization of oncological imaging
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