Department Environment wants to provide independent insight into the exposure to magnetic waves coming from high-voltage power lines. To this end, Department of the Environment (DOMG) uses a computational model that was integrated into two implementations. In the current study, exposure is calculated with that model and the results are compared with (1) on-site measurements near high-voltage lines and (2) calculations from another, commercial model.
The results from the measurements and from the calculations using the DOMG computational implementations are sufficiently consistent when we take into account the uncertainties intrinsic to performing such measurements and calculations. The agreement between the calculation by the DOMG computational implementations and by a commercially available computational model is also good. Consequently, the computational model used by Department of the Environment for the calculation of magnetic fields near high voltage lines in Flanders has been successfully validated against measured field values and independently calculated field values.