A rapid method of predicting radiocaesium concentrations in sheep from activity levels in faeces

McGee, E.J.; Keatinge, M.; Synnott, H.J.; Colgan, P.A.

doi:10.1016/0265-931x(94)90031-0

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“…1993), reindeer are more selective and prefer forbs and mushrooms in the summer season, while the muskoxen are less selective, preferring areas of graminoids. McGee et al (1994) Cs level is higher in reindeer meat than in muskox meat in the summer period. This is in accordance with Aarkrog (1979), who found significantly lower 137 Cs levels in muskox meat from northeastern Greenland than in reindeer meat from West Greenland, even when differences in precipitation between the localities were taken into account.…”

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Distribution of 137Cs in a Low Arctic Ecosystem in West Greenland

Strandberg¹

1997

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ABSTRACT. During the summer of 1992, sampling of soil and vegetation was carried out at five localities in West Greenland to investigate the distribution of 137 Cs in soil and in some reindeer fodder plants. Depending on the locality, between 69% and 97% of the total 137 Cs deposition resided in the vegetation and upper 5 cm of soil. Between 0% and 15% had penetrated to depths lower than 10 cm. Both in the soil and in the vegetation, the concentration of 137 Cs was in agreement with the degree of continentality estimated from the composition of plant communities; this agreement indicates a precipitation-related longitudinal gradient in the deposition of 137 Cs along the coast of West Greenland.

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Distribution of 137Cs in a Low Arctic Ecosystem in West Greenland

Strandberg¹

1997

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“…Before the work described here a number of workers had noted considerable variability between the radiocaesium activities of individuals within sheep flocks grazing semi-natural ecosystems in areas of Europe which had received significant levels of fallout from the Chernobyl accident (Walters, 1988;Coughtrey et al, 1989;Pearce et al, 1990;McDonough and Segal, 1991;Howard and Beresford, 1994;McGee et al, 1994;Mehli, 1996). However, whilst there had been studies of some individual parameters (predominantly grazing preference; e.g.…”

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“…However, considerable variability has been observed between the radiocaesium activity concentrations in the muscle of individual sheep within flocks in the UK (Walters, 1988;Coughtrey et al, 1989;Pearce et al, 1990;McDonough and Segal, 1991;Howard and Beresford, 1994) and other countries (Pearce et al, 1990;McGee et al, 1994;Mehli, 1996).…”

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Factors contributing to radiocaesium variability in upland sheep flocks in west Cumbria (United Kingdom)

Beresford

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Wright

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Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

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“…Previous studies in sheep have mainly investigated post-Chernobyl caesium ( 134 Cs and 137 Cs) depositions in Snowdonia, the English Lake District and continental Northern Europe (Bonnett et al, 1989). A convenient proxy method for measuring radio-caesium concentration in sheep meat involved the testing of sheep faeces for radionuclides (McGee et al, 1994). A similar method to measure 7 Be concentration by determining its 447 keV gamma peak was used in this study.…”

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