Dynamics of Radionuclides in Semi-Natural Environments

Risk factors for long-term mental and psychosomatic distress in Latvian Chernobyl liquidators.

“…Hence, forests are a potential reservoir of secondary contamination and fires represent a potential risk of resuspension of radionuclides. So in the wake of the Chernobyl accident, it became apparent that forest ecosystems are very important sources of radiation doses to humans that demand careful management (15). These technical considerations probably escaped the liquidators' attention (hence avoiding recall bias), and could to some extent favor radiation-induced effects.…”

Predicted spatio-temporal dynamics of radiocesium deposited onto forests following the Fukushima nuclear accident

“…In addition, it is useful to be able to predict the future dynamics of the radiocesium between forest components; modelling is the best tool for this prediction16171819.…”

Radiocaesium soil-to-wood transfer in commercial willow short rotation coppice on contaminated farm land

“…Various remediation options have been compared for agricultural lands (Shaw et al, 1992;Segal, 1993;Melin et al, 1996;Renaud and Maubert, 1997) and for forest ecosystems (Davydchuk, 1997;Shaw et al, 2001) severely affected by 137 Cs deposits (Belli et al, 1995;Belli and Tikhomirov, 1996). Countermeasures can also be based on the selection of crops which exhibit smaller radionuclide uptake Voigt et al, 2000), on food processing or selecting for non-food crops such that the products from the land are radiologically acceptable (Alexakhin, 1993;Segal, 1993;GOPA, 1996).…”

“…The fallout of radiocaesium from the Chernobyl radioactive plume (April 26, 1986) caused a large-scale and heterogeneous contamination, mainly in Belarus (70% of the deposits), Ukraine (20%) and Russia (7%) (Belli and Tikhomirov, 1996). The radioactive aerosols that were released during the accident (such as radioiodine and radiocaesium) spread through the entire Northern hemisphere.…”