Published January 1988
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Journal article
Dose rates to aquatic life near a U waste site
Description
Radiation dose rates to aquatic organisms have been estimated from radionuclide levels in fish, in water and in the sediments near an abandoned U waste site. The dose rates in the sediments were high (0.5 Gy y-1). Whitefish received dose rates of 10 mGy y-1 from internal 226Ra and could have received comparable external dose rates from the sediments when they forage near the lake bottom, as they usually do. The calculated dose rates to fish were comparable to those reported near an adjacent U mine (Sw83)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Health Phys.
- Journal Volume
- 54
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Series
- Health Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 63-68
- ISSN
- 0017-9078
- CODEN
- HLTPA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19050089
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; S58: GEOSCIENCES;
- Descriptors DEI
- FISHES; RADIATION DOSES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIONUCLIDE KINETICS; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; RADIUM 226; SASKATCHEWAN; SEDIMENTS; URANIUM; WATER
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CANADA; CARBON 14 DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; HEAVY ION DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; KINETICS; MASS TRANSFER; MATERIALS; METALS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEI; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; POLAR SOLVENTS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIUM ISOTOPES; SOLVENTS; VERTEBRATES; WASTES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES