Assessment of the environmental contamination with long-lived radionuclides around an operating RBMK reactor station
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Kaunas University of Technology, Studentu g. 50, LT-51368 Kaunas (Lithuania)
- 2. Department of Radiation Physics, Lund University, Malmoe University Hospital, SE-20502 Malmoe (Sweden)
- 3. Department of Nuclear Physics, Lund University, Box 118, SE-22100 Lund (Sweden)
- 4. Department of Quarternary Geology, Lund University, Soelvegatan 12, SE-22362 Lund (Sweden)
Description
The presence of man-made gamma emitting radionuclides in the region within 32 km radius of the Ignalina NPP/Lithuania has been investigated during the period 2001-2004, prior to the closure of the first of the two operating RBMK 1500-type reactors. Gamma spectrometric measurements of various terrestrial and aquatic plants as well as of soil samples showed moderate environmental contamination with the fission product 137Cs and with the neutron activation products 6Co and 54Mn. Traces of the activation products 65Zn and 110mAg were found in the nearest vicinity of the NPP. Activity concentrations were inhomogeneously distributed in the area of interest. Moss and algae samples showed the highest uptake of radionuclides. In addition to the gamma spectrometric measurements, the levels of 14C were determined in the same bio-indicator samples using accelerator mass spectrometry
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2006.06.004;
- PII
- S0265-931X(06)00097-X;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
- Journal Volume
- 90
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 68-77
- ISSN
- 0265-931X
- CODEN
- JERAEE
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38012928
- Subject category
- S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGAE; BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS; CARBON 14; CESIUM 137; CONTAMINATION; FISSION PRODUCTS; GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY; IGNALINA-1 REACTOR; IGNALINA-2 REACTOR; LITHUANIA; MANGANESE 54; MASS SPECTROSCOPY; MEN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SILVER 110; SOILS; UPTAKE; ZINC 65
- Descriptors DEC
- ANIMALS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CARBON ISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; EASTERN EUROPE; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; EUROPE; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; LWGR TYPE REACTORS; MALES; MAMMALS; MAN; MANGANESE ISOTOPES; MATERIALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PLANTS; POWER PLANTS; POWER REACTORS; PRIMATES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTORS; SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; SILVER ISOTOPES; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMAL REACTORS; VERTEBRATES; WATER COOLED REACTORS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; ZINC ISOTOPES
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.