• Access to information
• Cefas framework document (PDF, 508 KB)
• Annual Report and Accounts
• Cefas business plan (PDF, 630 KB)
• Cefas service charter
• CST customer charter
• FHI charter (PDF, 54 KB)
• Finfish News
• Shellfish News
• Scientific series
  • Aquatic environment reports
  • Data reports
  • Environment reports
  • Fisheries Science Partnership reports
  • Green Book
  • Laboratory leaflets
  • OSPAR eutrophication assessments
  • Radioactivity in Food and the Environment (RIFE)
  • Technical reports
• Miscellaneous publications

Environment reports

We issue scientific reports on specific projects to Defra and other contractual clients. Where these are not controlled by commercial or other restrictions, our policy is to make them accessible.

Our risk-related work on consumption and occupancy surveys near nuclear facilities is listed with other reports below. All publications are lised in reverse date order (last publication first), and grouped by year:

2011

• Radiological Habits Survey: Dungeness, 2010 (PDF, 2.28 MB)
• Radiological Habits Survey: Sizewell, 2010 (PDF, 1.79 MB)
• Radiological Habits Survey: Hinkley Point, 2010 (PDF, 1.78 MB)
• Radiological Habits Survey: Sellafield review, 2010 (PDF, 1.01 MB)
• BEEMS Scientific Advisory Report series No 005: Methodology for the measurement of entrainment - Edition 2 (PDF, 456 KB)
• BEEMS Scientific Advisory Reoprt series No 006: Methodology for the measurement of impingement - Edition 2 (PDF, 744 KB)
• BEEMS Scientific Advisory Report series No 007: Methodology for the measurement of plumes (PDF, 1.19 MB)
• BEEMS Scientific Advisory Report series No 009: Chlorination by-products in power station cooling wates (PDF, 757 KB)
• BEEMS Scientific Advisory Report series No 008: Thermal standards for cooling water from new build nuclear power stations (PDF, 2.4 MB)

2010

• Radiological Habits Survey: Derby, 2009 (PDF, 4.97 MB)
• Radiological Habits Survey: Sellafield review, 2009 (PDF, 1.02 MB)
• Radiological Habits Survey: Wylfa, 2009 (PDF, 2.63 MB)
• Radiological Habits Survey: Amersham, 2009 (PDF, 9.26 MB)
• Radiological Habits Survey: Cumbrian coast beach occupancy, 2009 (PDF, 3.74 MB)

2009

• Radiological Habits Survey: Hartlepool, 2008 (PDF, 3.43 MB)
• Radiological Habits Survey: Sellafield, 2008 (PDF, 0.99 MB)
• Radiological Habits Survey: Capenhurst, 2008 (PDF, 4.68 MB)

2008

• An assessment of aquatic radiation pathways in Ireland, 2008 (PDF, 411 KB)
• Radiological habits survey: Sellafield beach occupancy, 2007 (PDF, 10.7 MB)
• An assessment of the availability of Tc-99 to marine foodstuffs from contaminated sediments (PDF, 980 KB)
• A report on the investigation of the Cefas monitoring database for incidences of high activities in mollusc samples (PDF, 307 KB)
• Environmental monitoring of beta doses at Sellafield and Springfields - March 2008 (PDF, 244 KB)
• Environmental monitoring of beta doses at Sellafield and Springfields - December 2008 (PDF 228 KB)
• Radiological assessment of dredging application for the port of Lancaster (2008) (PDF, 218 KB)
• A literature review on particle assimilation by molluscs and crustaceans (PDF, 302 KB)
• FSA/Cefas mobile monitoring unit (MMU) (PDF, 931 KB)
• Radiological habits survey: Berkeley and Oldbury, 2007 (PDF, 6.48 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Bradwell, 2007 (PDF, 826 KB)
• Radiological habits survey: Harwell, 2007 (PDF, 2.64 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Sellafield review, 2007 (PDF, 260 KB)

2007

• Radiological Habits Survey: Faslane, 2006 (PDF, 4.93 MB)
• Estimation of child doses using habits data and profiling total dose methodology (PDF 386 KB)
• Testing and validation of the PRAME modelling suite (PDF, 415 KB)
• Best practice techniques for environmental radiological monitoring (PDF, 862 KB)
• Radiological habits survey: Hinkley Point, 2006 (PDF, 1.08 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Heysham, 2006 (PDF, 1.77 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Springfields, 2006 (PDF, 1.07 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Sellafield review, 2006 (PDF, 357 KB)

2006

• Radiological Habits Survey: Rosyth, 2005 (PDF, 5.19 MB)
• Radiological Habits Survey: Chapelcross, 2005 (PDF, 6.10 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Sellafield review, 2005 (PDF, 1.42 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Sizewell, 2005 (PDF, 1.34 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Dungeness, 2005 (PDF, 2.61 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Trawsfynydd, 2005 (PDF, 976 KB)
• Dose assessments in relation to disposal at sea under the London Convention 1972: judging de minimis radioactivity (PDF, 933 KB)

2005

• Shellfish consumption and intertidal occupancy review, Sellafield, 2004 (PDF, 201 KB)
• Radiological habits survey: Wylfa, 2004 (PDF, 758 KB)
• Radiological habits survey: Amersham, 2004 (PDF, 2.06 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Devonport, 2004 (PDF, 3.56 MB)
• Parameter sensitivities for radionuclide concentration prediction in PRAME (PDF, 482 KB)
• Collation and presentation of radioactivity trend data from MAFF monitoring programmes from 1994-98 (PDF 950 KB)

2004

• Radiological habits survey: Winfrith, 2003 (PDF, 9.54 MB)
• Accumulation of ⁹⁹Tc in the eastern Irish Sea sediments (PDF, 708 KB)
• Radiological habits survey: Dounreay, 2003 (PDF, 1.35 MB)
• User guide for radiological assessments PC version 1.1 (PDF 592 KB)
• Radiological habits survey: Sellafield, 2003 (PDF, 800 KB)
• Radiological habits survey: Cardiff, 2003 (PDF, 1.46 MB)

2003

• Radiological habits survey: Hartlepool, 2002 (PDF, 0.99 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Aldermaston/Burghfield, 2002 (PDF, 2.79 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Dumfries and Galloway Coast, 2002 (PDF, 890 KB)
• Development of a mobile facility for monitoring radioactivity in food during an emergency (PDF, 639 KB)
• Nuclear site specific hydrographic parameters for use with the WAT/ADO models (PDF, 2.7 MB)
• Parameter correlations in marine dose assessments (PDF, 245 KB)

2002

• Radiological habits survey: Hunterston 2001 (PDF, 3.09 MB)
• An assessment of aquatic radiation pathways in Northern Ireland (PDF, 776 KB)
• An investigation into the effects of chronic radiation on fish (PDF, 0.99 MB)
• Natural radionuclides in seafood (PDF, 427 KB)
• Radiological habits survey: Chapelcross liquid effluent pipeline 2002 (PDF, 341 KB)
• Radiological habits survey: Torness 2001 (PDF, 1.54 MB)
• Radiological habits survey: Faslane 2000 (PDF, 1.14 MB)
• A probabilistic modelling suite for the marine environment (PDF, 710 KB)