- Title: Effects of radioactive fallout on soil animal populations in the 30 km zone of the Chernobyl atomic power station
Author: Krivolutzkii, D.A. / Pokarzhevskii, A.D.
Reference: Science of The Total Environment, 112 (1), p.69-77, Feb 1992
doi: 10.1016/0048-9697(92)90239-O
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Abstract: Studies were carried out during July and September 1986, April 1987, and October 1988. Radioactive fallout after the Chernobyl atomic power station (APS) accident induced catastrophic effects on populations of small pine-litter faunae within the 3 km zone around the station. Effects on soil faunae were not so marked due to shielding by the soil, or on litter faunae at the edge of the 30 km zone due to distance from the source.
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/004896979290239O
Title: 86 Iodine-131 Contamination, Thyroid Doses and Thyroid Cancer in the…
Author: Valery F. STEPANENKO, Evgeny M. PARSHKOV, Viktor A. SOKOLOV, Mark Yu. ORLOV,
Alexander I. IVANNKOV, Valery G. SKVORTSOV, Elena K. IASKOVA,
Timofey V. KOLIZSHENKOV, Irina G. KRYUKOVA, Anatoly F. TSYB
Reference: Medical Radiological Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Korolev Str., 4, 249020,Obninsk, Russia: valeri@obninsk.com[PDF-95K] Aug 2002
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Abstract: …dose for 26 thyroid cancer cases (0 – 18 years…dose dependence of thyroid cancer incidence was found…as a result of the Chernobyl accident [1]. The most…features of the post-Chernobyl thyroid cancer situation. Annual…
URL: http://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/reports/kr79/kr79pdf/Stepanenko.pdf
- Title: Transfer of 131I to sheep milk from vegetation contaminated by Chernobyl fallout
Author: Howard, B.J. / Beresford, N.A. / Mayes, R.W. / Lamb, C.S.
Reference: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 19 (2), p.155-161, Jan 1993
doi: 10.1016/0265-931X(93)90074-H
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Abstract: he transfer of 131I to sheep milk was measured in a controlled feeding experiment using herbage recently contaminated by fallout from the Chernobyl accident. The transfer coefficient (fm) of131I from the Chernobyl-contaminated herbage was 0·29±0·017 day litre−1. The daily proportion of 131I intake which was secreted in milk was 56±0·035%. This is an order of magnitude higher than for cattle and agrees with the higher transfer of stable iodine from plasma to milk which occurs in sheep and goats.
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0265931X9390074H
- Title: Transfer of 137Cs from water to fish is not linear in two northern lakes
Author: Tuovinen, Tiina S. / Saengkul, Chutarat / Ylipieti, Jarkko / Solatie, Dina / Juutilainen, Jukka
Reference: Hydrobiologia, 700 (1), p.131-139, Jan 2013
doi: 10.1007/s10750-012-1224-8
Keywords: Radioecology, Transfer factor, Linearity assumption, Trophic transfer, 137Cs, Aquatic
Abstract: Empirical data on the behavior of radionuclides in the biosphere are needed for validating radioecological models. In this study, data collected from two lakes in Northern Finland were used to investigate the transfer of 137Cs from lake water into fish during a 20-year period after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. The results indicated that transfer of 137Cs in the food chains investigated is nonlinear: the water-to-fish concentration ratios (CRs) decreased with increasing 137Cs concentration in water.
URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10750-012-1224-8
Title: Thyroid Cancer – Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC) Cancer Incidence
Author: CÉCILE RONCKERS, ELAINE RON
Reference: MECC Monograph Aug 2008[PDF-454K]
Abstract: …malignancies, with thyroid tumors occurring…The majority of thyroid cancers are differentiated…7,8] or the Chernobyl disaster [9]. A history of benign thyroid conditions, most…follicular thyroid cancer [10]. Other suggested…
URL: http://seer.cancer.gov/publications/mecc/mecc_thyroid.pdf
- Title: Radionuclide content in lichen thallus in the forests adjacent to the Chernobyl atomic power plant
Author: Biazrov, L.G.
Reference: Science of The Total Environment, 157, p.25-28, Dec 1994
doi: 10.1016/0048-9697(94)90561-4
Keywords: Radionuclides; Lichens; Thalli; Chernobyl
Abstract: The concentrations of 106Ru, 134Cs, 137Cs, and 144Ce in thalli of lichens Hypogymnia physodes and Cladina mitis, in the bark of pine tree Pinus silvestris are very high in the immediate vicinity of the Chernobyl atomic power plant. They decrease with increasing distance from the centre of the accident. However, even outside the 30-km zone of population evacuation, they surpass concentrations of these radionuclides from global fallout by hundreds of times.
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0048969794905614
- Title: Chemical fractionation of radioactive caesium in airborne particles containing bomb fallout, chernobyl fallout and atmospheric material from the sellafield site
Author: Hilton, J. / Cambray, R.S. / Green, N.
Reference: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 15 (2), p.103-111, Jan 1991
doi: 10.1016/0265-931X(91)90046-I
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Abstract: Airborne particulate material was collected at Didcot (UK) in June 1959, a period of elevated atmospheric 137Cs concentrations due to atmospheric weapons testing; in May 1986, during the peak of Chernobyl deposition; and in 1987, from a location close to the Sellafield reprocessing plant. The samples were selectively extracted chemically in an attempt to identify the different forms of radiocaesium. Approximately 70% of the Chernobyl material was found to be water-soluble, compared to only 8% of the weapons fallout and 50% of the Sellafield material.
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0265931X9190046I
- Title: Chernobyl nuclear accident hydrologic analysis and emergency evaluation of radionuclide distributions in the Dnieper River, Ukraine, during the 1993 summer flood
Author: Voitsekhovitch, O.V. / Zheleznyak, M.J. / Onishi, Y.
Reference: Jun 1994
doi: 10.2172/10168428
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Abstract: This report describes joint activities of Program 7.1.F, “Radionuclide Transport in Water and Soil Systems,“ of the USA/Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Joint Coordinating Committee of Civilian Nuclear Reactor Safety to study the hydrogeochemical behavior of radionuclides released to the Pripyat and Dnieper rivers from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. These joint activities included rapid evaluation of radionuclide distributions in the Pripyat and Dnieper river system and field data evaluation and modeling for the 1993 summer flood to assist the Ukrainian government in their emergency response during the flood.
URL: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?query_id=2&page=0&osti_id=10168428
- Title: Environmental impact of radionuclide release during the Kyshtym, Windscale, and Chernobyl accidents
Author: Trabalka, J.R.
Reference: Oct 1990
doi: 10.2172/6346264
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Abstract: The traveler attended the conference, Comparative Assessment of the Environmental Impact of Radionuclides Released During Three Major Nuclear Accidents: Kyshtym, Windscale, and Chernobyl and presented an invited paper giving a western perspective of the Kyshtym (Chelyabinsk-40) high-level waste explosion that took place in 1957. Papers of interest to several ORNL and DOE programs were presented. These covered the topics of accident source terms, atmospheric dispersion, resuspension, chemical and physical forms of contamination (e.g., hot” particles), environmental contamination and transfer, radiological effects on humans and the environment, and countermeasures.
URL: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?query_id=2&page=0&osti_id=6346264
- Title: Aquatic radioecology post Chernobyl—a review of the past and a look to the future
Author: Hilton, J.
Reference: Studies in Environmental Science, 68, p.47-73, Jan 1997
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-1116(09)70082-2
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Abstract: The dynamic nature of environmental pollution following the Chernobyl accident has highlighted a number of limitations to the models of radionuclide transport in aquatic systems which were developed under the pseudo-equilibrium conditions following the atmospheric testing of atomic weapons. Much of the work has concentrated on caesium and has highlighted the importance of specifying the chemical form of the caesium and the rate of transfer between different physico-chemical forms.
URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166111609700822
