31 October 2025
Australia’s historic and real-time radiation levels are available on a new website, making it easier for Australians to understand their everyday radiation exposure.
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency’s (ARPANSA) environmental protection principal advisor, Julia Carpenter, says that they have an extensive amount of data on exposure levels from different sources that they have collected over the years.
‘Measuring radiation exposure levels to make sure that people, their family and friends and the environment are safe is one of our bread-and-butter activities as the Australian Government’s primary authority on radiation protection and nuclear safety,’ Ms Carpenter says.
‘In the past, collecting and publishing those measurements on our website or in scientific papers and technical reports has been on a case-by-case basis.
‘What our new Environmental Radiation Monitoring and Assessment Program and website does is bring all this data together so people can see for themselves and feel confident that they’re safe from different sources of radiation exposure.’
The website displays real time gamma monitoring from various locations around Australia. Along with all previous radon measurements, and measurements of radionuclides in air, water and soil across Australia.
Historic data held by ARPANSA will continue to be added to the website over the coming months. In the future, ARPANSA’s UV and radiofrequency electromagnetic energy measurements will be added to this site, providing a more comprehensive picture.
The website was developed alongside ARPANSA’s new Framework for Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
The new framework was created with community values in mind. That way, the information and advice ARPANSA provides stays useful and relevant to the Australian community.
You can view the website here: https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understanding-radiation/radmap-aus
