In order to ensure the orderly carrying out of radiation environmental monitoring in Jiangsu province and to improve the quality of monitoring, the Jiangsu Nuclear Regulatory Center (JNRC) successfully organized, recently in Nanjing, the 2018 Working Meeting on Province-wide Radiation Monitoring. A total of 60 managerial staff related to radiation monitoring from 13 cities and districts and Suzhou Industrial Park attended the meeting.

On the meeting, the JNRC Director Shan Yang presented a summary of the accomplishments made in 2018 on radiation monitoring work in Jiangsu. He also analyzed the existent problems and deployed the arrangement of the main works in 2019. Focusing on the vertical management system reform for environmental protection regulatory oversight, all representatives made a wide-range exchange and intensive discussion on how to keep the stability of the radiation monitoring force at the city and county level and how to strengthen the operation and management of state-controlled automatic operation monitoring stations. The meeting also organized a technical training and a radiation dose rate measurement inter-comparison in the aspect of the automatic radiation monitoring and sampling.

Successful completion of the radiation monitoring tasks in the year is attributed to the cooperation and joint effort of the radiation monitoring organizations affiliated to the local ecology and environment departments in 13 districts and cities in Jiangsu province, and is also reflected that the radiation monitoring forces are as strong as iron. Shan Yang stressed that helping complete the arduous tasks of nuclear and radiation safety is the primary mission and duty that should be undertaken by Jiangsu radiation monitoring departments at different levels. In 2019, the "four strengthening" should be implemented. First, the radiation monitoring force should be strengthened to implement the radiation monitoring functions. It should be continued to maintain a focus on maintenance of relatively independency and stability of radiation monitoring force so that the mechanisms and patterns of radiation monitoring established in recent years can persist. This should be strengthened but not weakened. Second, the normalized management of radiation monitoring should be enhanced and the quality of radiation monitoring should be improved. With the growing social awareness of radiation safety and the increased information publicity on radiation monitoring, the radiation monitoring works should be conducted in a more than ever normalized and detailed manner. Only in this way, can we ensure the accuracy and reliability of monitoring results province-wide. Third, the maintenance and management of existing automatic radiation monitoring stations should be strengthened to ensure them in a stable and effective operation. Departments of ecology and environment at provincial and/or municipal level should have a clear division of responsibility and duty in jointly managing the day-to-day operation of the automatic monitoring stations. It is significant to ensure the stations in a safe, reliable and stable operation mode to provide the timely, accurate and efficient data supporting for the management of radiation environment. Last, radiation monitoring emergency capabilities should be enhanced to ensure the safety of radiation environment. There is no small matter in nuclear and radiation management. Departments of ecology and environment at district and/or city level should strength the training and exercises fully by the aid of professional instruments and devices according the localized management principles. The aim is to upgrade the capabilities of radiation monitoring and emergency response to ensure the safety of the radiation environment and the public.