AIRNET Program Description

AIRNET is a network of over 50 environmental air stations that continuously sample ambient air on and around Los Alamos National Laboratory property. A filter and a silica gel sample is collected every two weeks. Analysis is done for select radionuclides. The moisture collected on the silica gel is analyzed for tritium (H-3). The particulate matter on the filter is analyzed for a suite of gamma-emitting radionuclides, a few metals (aluminum, calcium and beryllium), and also the alpha emitters americium-241, plutonium-238 and -239, uranium-234, -235 and -238.

Learn more about AIRNET sampling procedures and analysis of data.

AIRNET Environmental Air Monitoring Station

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