NUKLEONIKA 2006, 51(2):137-140

AIR AEROSOL SAMPLING STATION AZA-1000 AT POLISH STATION IN HORNSUND, SPITSBERGEN

Bogumiła Mysłek-Laurikainen1, Maria Matul1, Stefan Mikołajewski1, Halina Trzaskowska1, Zygmunt Preibisz1, Ilona Garanty2, Marek Kubicki3, Paweł Rakowski4, Tomasz Krynicki4, Mirosław Stefański4

1 Department of Physics Applications, The Andrzej Sołtan Institute for Nuclear Studies, 05-400 Otwock-Świerk, Poland
2 Management of Health and Environmental Hazards, Institute of Atomic Energy, 05-400 Otwock-Świerk, Poland
3 Geophysical Observatory at Świder, Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, 2 Brzozowa Str., 05-402 Świder, Poland
4 Polish Polar Station, 9177 Hornsund, Svalbard, Norway

The high volume air sampler AZA-1000 was built in the Environmental Protection Laboratory of the Andrzej Sołtan Institute for Nuclear Studies. In July 2002, this air sampler AZA-1000 was installed in the Polish Polar Observatory of the Polish Academy of Science in Hornsund, Spitsbergen. The device was built with numerous specific features which make possible to operate such station in extra difficult climatic conditions of polar region. Since July 2002, radioactive aerosols were collected at the Petrianov filter tissue FPP-15-1.5 and measured using high resolution g spectrometry in the Environmental Protection Laboratory at Świerk. The concentration of the airborn, cosmogenic radionuclide 7Be and of other natural and man maid radionuclides like 137Cs was determined. A comparison of the preliminary results with those from the ASS-500 sampling station operating at Świder is presented.