Author: KAL’CHENKO V.A.
Reference: Moscow, 1998
Keywords: genetic effects, plant, contamination of environment
Abstract: Our aim was to evaluate genetic processes in plant populations under radioactive contamination resulting from a large-scale accident at a nuclear industry.
Title: Radiation control and monitoring of agricultural products in the context of global and local radioactive fallout
Author: Kalmykov, Mikhail Viktorovich
Reference: Moscow, 2001
Keywords: animals, plants, soil, agriculture, Russia, veterinary radiological control, monitoring, forage, cesium-137, strontium-90
Abstract: The aim of the thesis – to review and analysis of the general laws of radiation situation formation in the sphere of agricultural production in Russia and other individual regions of the country – radio-ecological justification of veterinary radiological control, monitoring, rationing of radionuclide content in the forage and the development of acceptable levels of their content
Author: V.V. Strelko, D.I. Shvets, O.A. Glushachenko, N.M. Openko, L.M. Romanov, D.M. Grodzinsky, E.A. Konoplyastaya
Reference: Patent, 10.12.2002, Kiev patent holder: Institute of Sorption and Problems of Endoecology NAS (UA)
Keywords: soil, decontamination, plant
Abstract: The invention relates to environmental protection, in detail, to decontamination of soil affected by disaster at a nuclear power plant. The method includes growing of radiation-sorbable plants on soil, which has absorbed radionuclide materials, removal of the plants and their further utilization. The sort of plant utilized depends on the sort of the contaminating material. As sorbent material, is applied.
Author: Maradudin I.I.
Reference: journal “ЛЕСНОЙ ВЕСТНИК“ (Bulletin of Moscow State University of Forestry ), 2005
ISSN: 1727-3749
DOI:
Keywords: migration, 137cs, biogeocenoses, soil, plants
Abstract: Migration of 137cs in forest biogeocenoses. Observes the migration in three different conditions: Bio morphogenetic properties of forest structures, fertility and moisture level of forest soils. Observes soil and plants.
Author: Romantsova N.А., Paramonova Т.А.
Reference: journal “XXI ВЕК: ИТОГИ ПРОШЛОГО И ПРОБЛЕМЫ НАСТОЯЩЕГО ПЛЮС” (XXI CENTURY: PAST AND PRESENT PROBLEMS PLUS), 2012
ISSN: 2221-951x
DOI: 57.045:57.042
Keywords: 137cs, agricultural products, accumulation, soil
Abstract: The investigation of accumulation levels of 137Cs in biomass of main field crop rotation cultures (wheat, barley, potato) and of meadow ecosystems in -Plavsk radioactive spot of Tula region demonstrated that at density of radioactive pollution of soils ~200-430 кBq/m2(5-12 Ki/km2) green parts of plants accumulate 0,01-0,02 кBq/m2, and underground parts œ 0,1-3,3 кBq/m2. Accumulation 137Cs in biomass depends on biological features of vegetation, and also is in close direct dependence with accumulation of 137Cs in soils.
Author: Romantsova N.А.
Reference: Gazette “XXI ВЕК: ИТОГИ ПРОШЛОГО И ПРОБЛЕМЫ НАСТОЯЩЕГО ПЛЮС” (XXI CENTURY: PAST AND PRESENT PROBLEMS PLUS), 2012
ISSN: 2221-951x
DOI: 57.045:57.042
Keywords: natural and technogenic radionuclides, 40k, 232th, 226ra, 137cs, Tula region
Abstract: The modern radiating background of the Plavsky radioactive spot of Tula region is formed at the expense of natural (40К,232Th,226Ra) and technogenic radionuclides (137Cs). Thus the share 137Cs from the general stocks of radionuclides in soils makes 48-67 %, and as a part of vegetative production œ only 5-14 % that reveals insignificant parameters of transition of an element from soils in plants.
Author: Geras’kin S. A., Fesenko S. V., Alexakhin R. M.
Reference: ScienceDirect, 2008
ISSN:
DOI: 574.415:539.1.04:[614.876:631.03958]
Keywords: soil, contamination, plants, animals, dose-effect relationship
Abstract: The area affected by the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident in 1986 has become a unique test site where long-term ecological and biological consequences of a drastic change in a range of environmental factors as well as trends and intensity of selection are studied in natural settings. The consequences of the Chernobyl accident for biota varied from an enhanced rate of mutagenesis to damage at the ecosystem level. The review comprehensively brings together key data of the long-term studies of biological effects in plants and animals inhabiting over 20 years the Chernobyl NPP zone. The severity of radiation effects was strongly dependent on the dose received in the early period after the accident. The most exposed phytocenoses and soil animals’ communities exhibited dose dependent alterations in the species composition and reduction in biological diversity. On the other hand, no decrease in numbers or taxonomic diversity of small mammals even in the most radioactive habitat was shown. In a majority of the studies, in both plant and animal populations from the Chernobyl zone, in the first years after the accident high increases in mutation rates were documented. In most cases the dose–effect relationships were nonlinear and the mutation rates per unit dose were higher at low doses and dose rates. In subsequent years a decline in the radiation background rate occurred faster than reduction in the mutation rate. Plant and animal populations have shown signs of adaptation to chronic exposure. In adaptation to the enhanced level of exposure an essential role of epigenetic mechanisms of gene expression regulation was shown. Based on the Chernobyl NPP accident studies, in the present review attempts were made to assess minimum doses at which ecological and biological effects were observed.
URL: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~w3bio/bio464/lectures/lectures_assets/ChernobylEffectsonNonhumans.pdf (full dissertation in English available online)
Author: Abramov VI, Rubanovich AV, Shevchenko VA, Shevchenko VV, Grinikh LI.
Reference: Gazette “РАДИАЦИОННАЯ БИОЛОГИЯ. РАДИОЭКОЛОГИЯ “ (Radiation Biology, Radioecology), 2006
ISSN: 0869-8031
DOI: 582:539.1.04 [577 21+575]
Keywords: genetic mutation, plant
Abstract: During 6 years, starting from 1986, the monitoring of the dynamics of the frequency of embryo lethal and of chlorophyll mutations was carried out in arabidopsis populations in areas with different levels of radioactive contamination by the Muller embryo-test in the 30 km of ChNPP. The dose rate of chronic irradiation in the examined areas varied from 0.014 to 17 nA/Kg. Monitoring of the dynamics of the mutation process in natural arabidopsis populations showed the correlation between the level of the mutation process and the dose rate of chronic irradiation. The genetic effects of different levels of radioactive contamination were estimated by determining the frequency of mutations occurred in this generation and by calculating the dose of irradiation of one was found. That the dependence of the mutation frequency on the dose of irradiation presents a power function with a power index less 1, which suggests a higher efficiency of low radiation doses per unit dose. Possible explanations of this phenomenon are considered in the work. The studies of cytogenetic effects in chronically exposed Crepis tectorum populations in the zones of the Chernobyl accident showed that starting from the second year after the Chernobyl disaster there appeared plants with an altered karyotype and their frequency of chromosome aberrations correlates in root meristem cells.
Author: S.I. Spiridonov, S.V. Fesenko, S.A. Geras’kin, V.M. Solomatin, E.I. Karpenko
Reference: Gazette “РАДИАЦИОННАЯ БИОЛОГИЯ. РАДИОЭКОЛОГИЯ “ (Radiation Biology, Radioecology), 2010
ISSN: 0869-8031
DOI: 10.1134/S086980310804005X
Keywords: load of radionuclides in pine trees, dose of exposure, dosimetric models
Abstract: Dosimetric models are designed to assess the exposure dose of woody plants
growing in areas contaminated by long-lived radionuclides. The models are parameterized using data obtained in experimental plots in the south-western districts of the Bryansk region affected by radioactive fallout from the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Estimates the dose of exposure in the generative organs of pine trees located in these areas. Describes content of various sources and types of ionized radiation in the formation of loads of radionuclides in the specified objects.
Author: Prister B. S., Biesold H., Deville-Cavelin G.
Reference: Gazette “РАДИАЦИОННАЯ БИОЛОГИЯ. РАДИОЭКОЛОГИЯ “ (Radiation Biology, Radioecology), 2003
ISSN: 0869-8031
Keywords: plant, accumulation, estimation method
Abstract: A method is founded on consideration of soil as three-phase system where soil solution reaction (pH), absorbing capacity (E) and content of organic matter (OM) are the main characteristics. The method of complete estimation of soil properties (CESP) for quantified analysis of radionuclide soil-to-plant TF dependence on soil properties is grounded and proposed. The area of an effective section (relative units)2 calculated as an area of the triangle with apexes lying in co-ordinates of normalised vectors pH, E and OM in three-dimensional space for complete estimation is used. It is shown that the dependence of Cs TF to various crops on CESP can be approximated by equation of power law.