The Federal Office of Public Health has set up a station to measure radioactivity on the Jungfraujoch in the Bernese Oberland. This highest measuring station in Europe was inaugurated on Tuesday by Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox At an altitude of over 3,400 metres above sea level, a radioactive cloud that reaches Switzerland after a nuclear incident abroad can be quickly detected and classified before the radioactivity reaches inhabited areas, wrote the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). If radioactivity is detected, a direct report is sent to the National Alarm Centre, it explained. This means that the necessary protective measures can be taken quickly. The new measuring station supplements the radioactivity measurements that are carried out at lower-lying locations in Switzerland, the statement continued. The station measures radioactivity in the air by identifying individual radionuclides, such as ...
