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Koehler, H.; Peterson, S.R.; Owen Hoffman, F.
Swedish Radiation Protection Inst., Stockholm (Sweden)1991
Swedish Radiation Protection Inst., Stockholm (Sweden)1991
AbstractAbstract
[en] Comprehensive measurements of I-131 and Cs-137 in the environment after the Chernobyl accident provided a unique opportunity for the collection of environmental transfer data sets. These come from 13 locations in the northern hemisphere which experienced levels of contamination that spanned approximately three orders of magnitude. Data have been compiled for radionuclide concentrations in air, rain, pasture vegetation, milk, beef and grain. In addition background information has been collated for factors such as prevailing meteorological conditions, location description, and local agricultural practices. Participants were asked to predict radionuclide concentrations in forage, milk, beef and grain from radionuclide concentrations in air, the daily amounts of precipitation and other pertinent information. This was a blind test in that the locations to which the input data referred were not revealed to the participants until after they had submitted their predictions. Twenty-three models were involved in the study. This report compares observations and predictions for deposition, time- integrated concentrations in forage, milk, beef and grain, to help assess understanding of individual processes, time-dependent concentrations in forage, milk and beef. In general, predictions of time-integrated concentration of I-131 and Cs-137 in forage, milk (normalized for forage) and beef are within a factor of 10 of the observations. About 50% of the predictions of I-131 and Cs-137 in forage and just over 30% of the predictions of those nuclides in milk (normalized for forage) fall within a factor of 2 of the observations. Documentation of the measurements, models, methods of analysis and model results is presented in the appendices. (au) (75 refs.)
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BIOMOVS= Biospheric model validation study
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Mar 1991; 179 p; SCK/CEN, AECL, AECB, Risoe, VTT, NRIRR, ENEA.DISR, JAERI, RIVM, PRYMA, SSI, NAGRA, NRPB, US-DOE collaboration.
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B CODES, BIOSPHERE, CESIUM 137, CHERNOBYLSK-4 REACTOR, COMPILED DATA, COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS, CROPS, ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE PATHWAY, FALLOUT DEPOSITS, FOOD CHAINS, FORAGE, IODINE 131, MEAT, MILK, PASTURES, RADIATION MONITORING, RADIOACTIVITY, RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION, RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION, RAIN, REACTOR ACCIDENTS
ACCIDENTS, ANIMAL FEEDS, ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS, BODY FLUIDS, CESIUM ISOTOPES, COMPUTER CODES, DATA, DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION, ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS, ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT, FALLOUT, FOOD, GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS, INFORMATION, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, IODINE ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, LWGR TYPE REACTORS, MASS TRANSFER, MATERIALS, MONITORING, NUCLEI, NUMERICAL DATA, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, PLANTS, POWER REACTORS, RADIOISOTOPES, REACTORS, RESEARCH PROGRAMS, THERMAL REACTORS, WATER COOLED REACTORS, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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