Published August 1986
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Journal article
Measuring radioactivity
Creators
Description
Research work at University College Dublin uses brown fucus seaweed as an indicator of contamination levels of iodine, caesium, ruthenium and plutonium. 20 sites around the Irish coast are regularly monitored, and the effect of discharges from the Sellafield reprocessing plant can thus be assessed. High resolution alpha spectroscopy is used to measure plutonium levels, which have been found to be considerably higher in the Irish Sea and along the Atlantic seaboard than those found along the Galician coast of Spain. This work now serves as a baseline against which the effects of fallout due to the Chernobyl fire can be measured
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Technol. Irel.
- Journal Issue
- p. 22-23
- Series
- Technol. Irel.
- ISSN
- 0040-1676
- CODEN
- TEIRD
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Ireland
- Country of Input or Organization
- Ireland
- INIS RN
- 17082283
- Subject category
- S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALPHA SPECTROSCOPY; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; CONTAMINATION; FUCUS; IODINE 131; IRISH SEA; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; RUTHENIUM ISOTOPES; SELLAFIELD REPROCESSING PLANT
- Descriptors DEC
- ALGAE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT; FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTO; IODINE ISOTOPES; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MASS TRANSFER; MONITORING; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PLANTS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEAS; SEAWEEDS; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE WATERS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES