§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the proposed national radiation monitoring network (RIMNET) will assemble and analyse data from Britain's sea areas as well as from "across the country", which implies land only.
The Earl of CaithnessThe national radiation monitoring network (RIMNET), is a land-based monitoring system located within the United Kingdom. It does not directly cover the sea areas. In the event of an overseas incident the Government would implement an appropriate marine surveillance programme as part of the national response plan for catering for nuclear accidents abroad. This might include monitoring of seafoods, fishing and other vessels, and oil platforms. International agreements provide for early warning of any nuclear incident abroad, and the overseas data made available under these agreements will be used in meteorological models to predict the approach of any radiation cloud.