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Saxen, R.; Koskelainen, U.; Alatalo, M.
Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki (Finland)2000
Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki (Finland)2000
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[en] This report summarises STUK's work for the hydrological modelling (WG 4) in RODOS C, a project co-ordinated by the EU, in 1996-1999. The role of STUK in the project was to provide a data set on the radio-caesium contents in different types of fish and lakes in northern European environmental conditions for the development of a dynamic regional model describing radio-caesium transfer into fish. The co-operating institute, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), was responsible for the modelling work in this project. Besides the analysed data on 137Cs in the various fish species in the lakes, background information was produced on lakes and their drainage areas that might affect radio-caesium transfer into fish, which was needed for the development of fish, lake and drainage basin models. The role of STUK included also providing another, independent data set for the validation of the model. The proposals and needs of the co-operating institute, VTT, were taken into account. One of the factors strongly affecting the transfer of 137Cs into fish is the nutrition level of the lake. The average transfer of 137Cs in predators at the time of maximum activity concentrations in oligotrophic lakes was found to be up to 0.10 m2/kg, implying that approximately 10% of the amount of 137Cs deposited on one square metre is transferred into 1 kg of fish. The corresponding transfer in eutrophic lakes was clearly lower,.i.e. 3- 4%, at the time of maximum concentrations, which usually occurred 1- 3 years after the deposition, depending on the fish species. These time-dependent transfer coefficients can be regarded as a kind of a lake-specific model. If deposition to the lake is known, the activity concentrations in fish can be estimated within specific uncertainty limits, by multiplying the deposition value by the transfer coefficient at a certain time point. Temporal changes in annual averages of transfer coefficients with variation for a certain set of lakes and for three lake types, oligotrophic, eutrophic and mesotrophic, are given here. (orig.)
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Sep 2000; 57 p; ISBN 951-712-355-8;
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ANIMALS, AQUATIC ORGANISMS, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CESIUM ISOTOPES, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS, EUROPE, FALLOUT, GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, ISOTOPES, LWGR TYPE REACTORS, MASS TRANSFER, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, POWER REACTORS, RADIOISOTOPES, REACTORS, SCANDINAVIA, SURFACE WATERS, THERMAL REACTORS, VERTEBRATES, WATER COOLED REACTORS, WESTERN EUROPE, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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