98/04180 Behaviour of 110mAg and 103,106Ru in the environment after the Chernobyl accident

Title: 98/04180 Behaviour of ^110mAg and ^103,106Ru in the environment after the Chernobyl accident

Reference: Fuel and Energy Abstracts, 39 (5), p.390, Sep 1998

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6701(98)94175-3

Keywords:Environment: Pollution, health protection, safety

Abstract: 15 Environment (pollution, health protection, safety…1’tRu in the environ ment after the Chernobyl accident Vukovi Z. J. Environmental…from radionuclides originated from the Chernobyl accident in the processes of copper…

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140670198941753

15 years after Chernobyl, nuclear power plant safety improved world-wide, but regional strains on health, economy and environment remain.

Title: 15 years after Chernobyl, nuclear power plant safety improved world-wide, but regional strains on health, economy and environment remain.

Reference: The Science of the total environment, 279 (1-3), p.239-240, Nov 2001

Keywords:

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11712602?dopt=Abstract

Distribution of radionuclides in the environment in Northern Italy after the Chernobyl accident

Title: Distribution of radionuclides in the environment in Northern Italy after the Chernobyl accident

Author: Berzero, Antonella / Borroni, Pier Angelo / Oddone, Massimo / Crespi, Vera Caramella / Genova, Nicla / Meloni, Sandro

Reference: The Analyst, 117 (3), p.533, Jan 1992

doi: 10.1039/an9921700533

Keywords:Italy, radionuclides

Abstract: Soon after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the air-pumping stations in Pavia (northern Italy) were alerted. In a few days, a rapid increase in radionuclide concentration in air particulates was observed. Consequently, an environmental radioactivity monitoring programme was started in which several matrices such as soil, grass, vegetables and cows’ milk were subjected to direct gamma-ray spectrometry. The radioactivity distribution and its variation with time is presented, discussed and compared with other available data. Detection limits, precision and accuracy are also reported, and depth profiles in soils for ¹³⁷Cs are presented and correlated with soil quality parameters. A survey of environmental radioactivity in soil, in a search for residual Chernobyl fallout, was carried out and a map of the ¹³⁷Cs distribution over a large area in northern Italy is presented and discussed.

URL: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/1992/AN/an9921700533

The impact of Chernobyl on the marine environment in Northern Scotland

Title: The impact of Chernobyl on the marine environment in Northern Scotland

Author: Martin, C.J. / Heaton, B.

Reference: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 9 (3), p.209-221, Jan 1989

doi: 10.1016/0265-931X(89)90045-3

Keywords:marine environment, Scotland, radionuclides

Abstract: Accumulations of the radionuclides ¹³⁷Cs, ¹³⁴Cs, ¹⁰⁶Ru, ¹⁰³Ru and ^110m Ag in seaweed and molluscs have been studied in the months following Chernobyl. The data set ptovides information on the performance of marine organisms as bioindicators for monitoring radioactive contamination. Concentrations of Cs, Ru and Ag radionuclides in Fucus vesiculosus declined with biological half-lives of 57, 80 and 210 days respectively. The biological half-lives of Cs and Ru radioisotopes in Patella were about 40 and 180 days but the decline in levels of ^110mAg was less than would have been expected from radioactive decay. Concentrations of ^110mAg in marine organisms on the north and east coast have been much higher than those on the west possibly due to differences in enhancement by runoff from nearby land. Radionuclide levels in sea spume were several thousand times greater than in seawater in June 1986.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0265931X89900453

Microbial diversity in contaminated soils along the T22 trench of the Chernobyl experimental platform

Title: Microbial diversity in contaminated soils along the T22 trench of the Chernobyl experimental platform

Author: Chapon, Virginie / Piette, Laurie / Vesvres, Marie-Hélène / Coppin, Frédéric / Marrec, Claire Le / Christen, Richard / Theodorakopoulos, Nicolas / (…) / Sergeant, Claire

Reference: Applied Geochemistry, 27 (7), p.1375-1383, Jul 2012

doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.08.011

Keywords:soil, bacteria

Abstract: ► We examined the diversity of bacterial communities inhabiting Chernobyl soils. ► Highly and weakly RN contaminated samples were collected at the trench T22 site. ► Molecular- and culture-based approaches evidenced a wide diversity of bacteria. ► The presence of RN does not exert a high selection pressure on bacterial communities.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292711003854

Chemicals in the environment: implications for global sustainability

Title: Chemicals in the environment: implications for global sustainability

Author: Plant, Jane A.; Korre, Anna; Reeder, Shaun; Smith, Barry; Voulvoulis, Nikolaos.

Reference: Applied Earth Science: Transactions of the Institution of Mining & Metallurgy, Section B. Jun2005, Vol. 114 Issue 2, p65-97. 33p.

doi: 10.1179/037174505X62857

Keywords:CHEMICALS; ENVIRONMENTAL chemistry; SUSTAINABLE development; PUBLIC health; POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL health; Health and Welfare Funds; Administration of General Economic Programs

Abstract: The impact of chemicals on the environment and human health is a cause of increasing concern. Although many studies continue to be carried out on this subject, most address only individual chemicals or particular groups of chemicals, such as metals or radioactive substances. In this paper, we consider the availability of data and knowledge about potentially harmful chemicals from the national to international scale and suggest a strategy to help prevent chemical pollution or deficiencies damaging global sustainability into the 21st century.

URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/aes/2005/00000114/00000002/art00001

Problem on estimation of the content of 131I in milk in the “iodine” period of the Chernobyl accident

Title: Problem on estimation of the content of ¹³¹I in milk in the “iodine” period of the Chernobyl accident

Author: Khrushchinskii, A. A.; Kuten’, S. A.; Budevich, N. M.; Minenko, V. F.; Zhukova, O. M.; Luk’yanov, N. K.

Reference: Journal of Engineering Physics & Thermophysics. Nov2007, Vol. 80 Issue 6, p1170-1177. 8p. 3

doi: 10.1007/s10891-007-0150-5

Keywords:MILK; IODINE; RADIOACTIVE contamination of milk; ISOTOPES; RADIOISOTOPES

Abstract: Measurements of the beta-activity of milk, serving as the main source of information on the radioactive contamination of the environment by the iodine isotope ¹³¹I, carried out on a DP-100 radiometer in the early post-Chernobyl period (1986) in Belarus, have been mathematically simulated. The results obtained allow the conclusion that the indicated measurements should be analyzed again with consideration for all of the nuclides present in milk.

URL:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10891-007-0150-5

Radionuclide transfer to fruit in the IAEA TRS 364 Revision

Title: Radionuclide transfer to fruit in the IAEA TRS 364 Revision

Author: Carini, F.

Reference: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Sept. 2009, vol.100, no.9, pp. 752-6

doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.08.035.

Keywords:Fruit; TRS 364 Revision; Radionuclide; Deposition; Absorption; Translocation; Remobilisation; Root uptake

Abstract: Information on the transfer of radionuclides to fruits was almost absent in the former TRS 364 “Handbook of parameter values for the prediction of radionuclide transfer in temperate environments”. The revision of the Handbook, carried out under the IAEA Programme on Environmental Modelling for RAdiation Safety (EMRAS), takes into account the information generated in the years following the Chernobyl accident and the knowledge produced under the IAEA BIOMASS (Biosphere Modelling and Assessment) Programme in the years 1997–2000. This paper describes the most important processes concerning the behaviour of radionuclides in fruits reported in the IAEA TRS 364 Revision and provides recommendations for research and modelling.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X08001616

Chernobyl fallout in the uppermost (0–3 cm) humus layer of forest soil in Finland, North East Russia and the Baltic countries in 2000–2003

Title: Chernobyl fallout in the uppermost (0–3 cm) humus layer of forest soil in Finland, North East Russia and the Baltic countries in 2000–2003

Author: Ylipieti, J.; Rissanen, K.; Kostiainen, E.; Salminen, R.; Tomilina, O.; Täht, K.; Gilucis, A.; Gregorauskiene, V.

Reference: Science of the Total Environment. Dec2008, Vol. 407 Issue 1, p315-323.

doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.08.035.

Keywords:¹³⁷Cs concentration; Fallout; Chernobyl; Surface humus layer

Abstract: The situation resulting from the Chernobyl fallout in 1987 was compared to that in 2000–2001 in Finland and NW Russia and that in 2003 in the Baltic countries. 786 humus (0–3 cm layer) samples were collected during 2000–2001 in the Barents Ecogeochemistry Project, and 177 samples in the Baltic countries in 2003. Nuclides emitting γ-radiation in the 0–3 cm humus layer were measured by the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority–STUK in Finland.

URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969708008474

Fuel “Hot” Particles of the Chernobyl Accident in the Retrospective Evaluation of the Emergency Processes at the 4th Block of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Title: Fuel “Hot” Particles of the Chernobyl Accident in the Retrospective Evaluation of the Emergency Processes at the 4th Block of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Author: G. I. Petelin, Yu. I. Zimin, V. E. Tepikin, V. B. Rybalka, and E. M. Pazukhin

Reference: Radiochemistry. May/Jun2003, Vol. 45 Issue 3, p304-308. 5p.

Keywords: ELECTRON microscopy; MICROSCOPY; X-rays — Diffraction; OPTICAL diffraction; NUCLEAR power plants; DISPERSION; Nuclear Electric Power Generation

Abstract: Solid particles fallen out after the Chernobyl accident were studied by electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis. The morphological and physicochemical characteristics of the dispersed fuel particles ejected into the environment and their nature were evaluated for different fallout directions, which supplements the existing version of the active accident stage at the 4th block of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP)

URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1026143430242