Radioactive pollution of Turkish biotas one year after the Chernobyl accident

Title: Radioactive pollution of Turkish biotas one year after the Chernobyl accident

Author: ·  H. Akçay, ·  G. Ardisson

Reference: Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 1 November 1988, Volume 128, Issue 4, pp 273-281

DOI: 10.1007/BF02166951

Keywords: Radioactive pollution, Turkey, biota

Abstract: Long-lived fission radionuclides spread out after the Chernobyl accident have been measured in samples collected from the Black Sea and at the Aegean coasts of Turkey between June 15 and September 15, 1987. Nondestructive analysis was performed using high resolution γ-spectroscopy. The activity remaining 16 months after the event was found to be enhanced in coniferous needles as well as in lichens, while foodstuff did not show any appreciable contamination. The relatively high¹⁰⁶Ru/¹³⁴Cs and¹⁴⁴Ce/¹³⁴Cs ratios compared to those found in analogous samples from Southern Europe, might result from a fractionation between refractory and volatile elements.

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Bioindication-based comparison of anthropogenic pollution near a radioactive-waste processing facility and in the 30-km control area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

• Title: Bioindication-based comparison of anthropogenic pollution near a radioactive-waste processing facility and in the 30-km control area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Author: Geras’kin, S. A. / Zimina, L. M. / Dikarev, V. G. / Dikareva, N. S. / Zimin, V. L. / Vasil’ev, D. V. / Blinova, L. D. / (…) / Nesterov, E. B.

Reference: Russian Journal of Ecology, 31 (4), p.274-277, Jul 2000

doi: 10.1007/BF02764060

Keywords: radioactive and chemical pollutants, ionizing radiation, biological test systems, chromosome aberrations, Pinus sylvestris

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URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02764060