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Voigt, G.; Schotola, C.; Crout, N.M.J.; Absalom, J.
GSF - Forschungszentrum fuer Umwelt und Gesundheit Neuherberg GmbH, Oberschleissheim (Germany)1997
GSF - Forschungszentrum fuer Umwelt und Gesundheit Neuherberg GmbH, Oberschleissheim (Germany)1997
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[en] For these investigations two farms were chosen. Farm A carries out a rotational grazing regime with 4 grazed pastures which is the more commonly used farm practice in Bavaria, farm B practises a continuous grazing regime with one grazed pasture only. In farm B a tenfold lower Cs-137 activity concentration was observed in milk though activity concentrations in soil and pasture grass were the same as that at farm A, indicating the same transfer rate soil-plant at both locations. It could be shown under normal agricultural conditions that with a higher grazing pressure lower activity concentrations in milk (in this case a factor of about 2 to 3) were obtained. Therefore changing stock density in combination with a continuous grazing regime on a given pasture after a major nuclear accident can be considered as a possible countermeasure which can be easily applied. Mainly to get more synchronised growth rates and a homogeneous distribution of radiocontamination plot experiments were performed to simulate the influence of grazing intensity. Under the experimental design used here no effect of grazing intensity on the transfer of radionuclides to vegetation could be found. Effects of grazing intensity as found for the farm experiment, therefore must be due to other sources than vegetation activities, and are presumably due to soil ingestion preventing uptake of soluble plant incorporated radiocaesium in the animal rumen. (orig./MG)
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Mar 1997; 47 p; ISSN 0721-1694; 

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ACCIDENTS, ANIMALS, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS, BODY FLUIDS, CATTLE, CESIUM ISOTOPES, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION, ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS, ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT, FOOD, GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS, INTAKE, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, ISOTOPES, LILIOPSIDA, LWGR TYPE REACTORS, MAGNOLIOPHYTA, MAMMALS, MASS TRANSFER, MATERIALS, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, PLANTS, POWER REACTORS, RADIOISOTOPES, REACTORS, RUMINANTS, THERMAL REACTORS, VERTEBRATES, WATER COOLED REACTORS, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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