Conforming to the「 Ionizing Radiation Protection Act 」article 19, promulgated on January 30, 2002, The Competent Authority (Nuclear Safety Commission, NSC in abbreviation) shall conduct environmental radiation monitoring at properly designated locations, where radiation monitoring facilities are set up and samples are taken, and makes results available to the public. And by the Organic Act of Radiation Monitoring Center (RMC in abbreviation) article 2, RMC is responsible for constitute the environmental radiation monitoring plan to monitoring the radioactive fallout , radioactivity analysis in foodstuff and drinking water in Taiwan and survey the environmental radiation level around the nuclear facilities and radioactive waste storage site and makes results available to the public.Following the 「Regulations for Management of Radiation Workplaces and Environmental Radiation Monitoring outside them」, promulgated on June 27, 2016, and 「Direction for Radiation Monitoring」, promulgated on November 11, 2009, RMC construct the 「Environmental Radiation Monitoring Plan in Taiwan 2019」which include 3 sub-projects ：「Environmental radiation surveillance for nuclear facilities of Taiwan」,「Radiation surveillance of radioactive fallout and environmental radiation level of Taiwan」 and 「Radioactivity analysis in foodstuff and drinking water in Taiwan」.Besides, to comply with the existing situation in Taiwan, the subproject, Environmental radiation surveillance for nuclear facilities of Taiwan, divides into 3 more elaborate sub-plans of the radiation inspection of nuclear power plant,research nuclear facility and according to the radiation nuclear waste storage of Lanyu.
