abstract：:Processes of vertical and lateral migration lead to gradual reduction in contamination of catchment soil, particularly its top layer. The reduction can be considered as natural attenuation. This, in turn, results in a gradual decrease of radiocesium activity concentrations in the surface runoff and river water, in bot...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Konoplev A,Golosov V,Wakiyama Y,Takase T,Yoschenko V,Yoshihara T,Parenyuk O,Cresswell A,Ivanov M,Carradine M,Nanba K,Onda Y

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of radiocesium from soil to crops is an important pathway for human intake. In the period from one to two years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident, food monitoring results showed that radiocesium concentrations in soybean (a legume) were higher than those in other annual agricult...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Uchida S,Tagami K

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear power plants (NPPs) have been one of the sources of anthropogenic radionuclides in the environment. This work combines the results from monitoring stations around NPPs in Slovakia (Mochovce and Jaslovské Bohunice) and academic measurements at the Comenius University campus in Bratislava. Most of the atmospheri...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Ješkovský M,Lištjak M,Sýkora I,Slávik O,Povinec PP

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides research data on levels and character of radionuclide contamination distribution in the «sediments- water - plants » system of objects of the Semipalatinsk test site (STS). As the research objects there were chosen water bodies of man-made origin which located at the territory of "Experimental Fiel...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Aidarkhanova AK,Lukashenko SN,Larionova NV,Polevik VV

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food samples are collected nationwide from January 2016 to February 2017 and their contents of artificial radionuclides are measured to address the growing concerns regarding the radioactive contamination of food products in Korea. Specifically, 900 food samples are collected for this study and their contents of repre...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Lee SH,Oh JS,Lee KB,Lee JM,Hwang SH,Lee MK,Kwon EH,Kim CS,Choi IH,Yeo IY,Yoon JY,Im JM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper deals with monitoring soil radon-222 concentration at two different locations, designated Site A and Site B, 200 m apart at Jadavpur University campus, Kolkata, India, with a view to find possible precursors for the earthquakes that occurred within a few hundred kilometers from the monitoring site. T...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Deb A,Gazi M,Ghosh J,Chowdhury S,Barman C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the very shallow coastal water off Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, and investigated: (1) temporal variation in 137Cs concentrations; (2) particle-size distribution of sediments; and (3) the effect on variation by waves, component-fractionated concentration of radiocesium and mineral composition at three s...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Matsumoto A,Myouse H,Arakawa H,Higuchi K,Hirakawa N,Morioka Y,Mizuno T

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The JRODOS (Java-based Real-time Online DecisiOn Support) is a decision support system for off-site emergency management for releases of radioactive material into the environment. This paper documents the application of JRODOS by the Hong Kong Observatory in accident consequence assessment and emergency preparedness s...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Leung WH,Ma WM,Chan PKY

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Netherlands considerable attention has been given to the exposure from thoron progeny in dwellings. For this purpose a nationwide survey on the thoron exhalation and thoron progeny concentration has been completed in 2015. Furthermore, extensive laboratory studies have been performed to measure activity concent...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： de With G,Smetsers RCGM,Slaper H,de Jong P

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beryllium-7 (7Be) has been used as a sediment tracer to evaluate soil redistribution rates at hillslopes and as a tool to estimate sediment residence time in river systems. A key assumption for the use of 7Be as a sediment tracer is the rapid and irreversible sorption of 7Be upon contact with the soil particles. Howev...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Ryken N,Al-Barri B,Blake W,Taylor A,Tack FMG,Van Ranst E,Bodé S,Boeckx P,Verdoodt A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capability of the noble gas component of the International Monitoring System as a verification tool for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty is deteriorated by a background of radioxenon emitted by civilian sources. One of the possible approaches to deal with this issue, is to simulate the daily radioxenon co...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： De Meutter P,Camps J,Delcloo A,Deconninck B,Termonia P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper describes different isolation/separation and detection procedures for 90Sr determination in the environmental samples which are routinely used in Laboratories A and B. In this context, four different methods for strontium isolation and two methods for detection were tested and compared by 90Sr determination ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Grahek Ž,Dulanská S,Karanović G,Coha I,Tucaković I,Nodilo M,Mátel Ľ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various studies indicated more or less recently that organically bound tritium (OBT) formed from gaseous or liquid tritium releases into the environment potentially accumulates in organisms contradicting hypotheses associated to methods used to assess the biological impact of tritium on humans (ASN, 2010). Increasing ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Eyrolle F,Ducros L,Le Dizès S,Beaugelin-Seiller K,Charmasson S,Boyer P,Cossonnet C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are used as representative reference biota for the biological assessment of environmental risks such as ionizing radiation due to their immobility. This study proposed a faster, more economical, and more effective method than conventional cytogenetic methods for the biological dosimetry of ionizing radiation in...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Ryu TH,Kim JK,Kim JI,Kim JH

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organically bound tritium (OBT) has become of increasing interest within the last decade, with a focus on its behaviour and also its analysis, which are both important to assess tritium distribution in the environment and dose consequences. After the first OBT International Workshop which was held in France in May 201...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Baglan N,Cossonnet C,Roche E,Kim SB,Croudace I,Warwick P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modelling the radionuclide cycle in forests is important in case of contamination due to acute or chronic releases to the atmosphere and from underground waste repositories. This article describes the most important aspects to consider in forest model development. It intends to give an overview of the modelling approa...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Diener A,Hartmann P,Urso L,Vives I Batlle J,Gonze MA,Calmon P,Steiner M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wildlife concentration ratios for 226Ra, 210Pb, 210Po and isotopes of Th and U from soil, water, and sediments were evaluated for a range of Australian uranium mining environments. Whole-organism concentration ratios (CRwo-media) were developed for 271 radionuclide-organism pairs within the terrestrial and freshwater ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Hirth GA,Johansen MP,Carpenter JG,Bollhöfer A,Beresford NA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we report the sorption of Nb on iron oxides and the effect of humic acid. Iron oxides viz. goethite, hematite and magnetite were chemically synthesised and characterised by X-ray diffraction, particle size, surface area and zeta potential measurement. The sorption of Nb on all the three iron oxides was l...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Ghosh M,Swain KK,Verma R

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a consequence of therapeutic and diagnostic treatment of patients with thyroid diseases, 131I is introduced into the sewage system on a regular basis. This presents an opportunity to use the 131I as a tracer to study its partitioning and transport within a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). In the case of nuclear a...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Hormann V,Fischer HW

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present there is a need for the development of new radioisotopes for soil erosion and sediment tracing especially as fallout 137Cs levels become depleted. Recent studies have shown that 239Pu can be a useful new soil erosion and sediment radioisotope tracer. 239Pu was released in the major atmospheric nuclear weapo...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Lal R,Fifield LK,Tims SG,Wasson RJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large stainless-steel collection tray (with a surface area of one square metre) was purpose built and mounted on the roof of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) building at Yallambie, Victoria, Australia. Using this system two years' worth of wet/dry deposition samples have been c...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Courtier J,Sdraulig S,Hirth G

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of artificial (137Cs, 238Pu, 239+240Pu, 241Am) and natural (226Ra, 232Th, 40K, 210Pb) radioactive isotopes in proglacial soils of an Arctic glacier have revealed high spatial variability of activity concentrations and inventories of the airborne radionuclides. Soil column 137Cs inventories range from below th...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Łokas E,Wachniew P,Jodłowski P,Gąsiorek M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work, numerical models are used to study the fate of the 99Tc discharges from Sellafield with a specific focus on the role of mesoscale eddy and tidal advection on the transport and dispersion of this radionuclide. Transport estimates are made with an ocean model that resolves a large part of the ocean ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Simonsen M,Saetra Ø,Isachsen PE,Lind OC,Skjerdal HK,Salbu B,Heldal HE,Gwynn JP

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hanabanilla and Paso Bonito Reservoirs are the main fresh water sources for about half a million inhabitants in central Cuba. Prior to this investigation precise information about the losses of storage capacity was not available. Sedimentation is the dominant process leading to reduction in water storage capacity. We ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Díaz-Asencio M,Corcho-Alvarado JA,Cartas-Aguila H,Pulido-Caraballé A,Betancourt C,Smoak JM,Alvarez-Padilla E,Labaut-Betancourt Y,Alonso-Hernández C,Seisdedo-Losa M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hunters and their families were one of the most exposed subpopulations in Sweden after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in 1986. In this pilot study we used existing registries and whole-body measurements to develop algorithms to calculate lifetime effective doses and collective doses to some hunters in Swed...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Tondel M,Rääf C,Wålinder R,Mamour A,Isaksson M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP), vehicle-borne monitoring was used to map radiation levels for radiological protection of the public. By convention measurements from vehicle-borne surveys are converted to the ambient dose equivalent rate at 1...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Takeishi M,Shibamichi M,Malins A,Kurikami H,Murakami M,Saegusa J,Yoneya M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, nanoscale zero valent iron I-NZVI was investigated as a remediation strategy for uranium contaminated groundwater from the former Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site in Oklahoma, USA. The 1 L batch-treatment system was applied in the study. The result shows that 99.9% of uranium in groundwater was removed by...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Jing C,Landsberger S,Li YL

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The research investigated three iron carbonate (siderite) sedimentary concretions from Nagykovácsi, Úri and Délegyháza, Hungary. To identify possible source rocks and effects of the glaze-like exposed surface of the concretions, we carried on comparative petrological, mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic studies. T...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Polgári M,Bérczi S,Horiuchi K,Matsuzaki H,Kovács T,Józsa S,Bendő Z,Fintor K,Fekete J,Homonnay Z,Kuzmann E,Gucsik A,Gyollai I,Kovács J,Dódony I

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several multi-day samplings were conducted over a 2-year period from an oil shale-fired power plant operating with pulverized fuel type of boilers that were equipped with either novel integrated desulphurization system and bag filters or with electrostatic precipitators. Oil shale, bottom ash and fly ash samples were ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Vaasma T,Loosaar J,Kiisk M,Tkaczyk AH

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulations of atmospheric dispersion of radon around the uranium mill tailings of the former Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant (PChP) in Ukraine were carried out with the aid of two atmospheric dispersion models: the Airviro Grid Model and the CALMET/CALPUFF model chain. The available measurement data of radon emission ra...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Kovalets IV,Asker C,Khalchenkov AV,Persson C,Lavrova TV

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radon (222Rn), a radioactive gas with a half-life of 3.82 days, is continuously emanated from soil, rocks, and water by the radioactive decay of 226Ra. Radon-222 is released from the ground into the atmosphere, where it is transported mainly by turbulent diffusion or convection. For precise measurement of radon-222 at...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Topin S,Richon P,Thomas V,Gréau C,Pujos J,Moulin J,Hovesepian A,Deliere L

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of implementing an extrajudicial environmental mediation procedure in the socioenvironmental conflict associated with routine operation of the El Cabril Disposal Facility for low- and medium- activity radioactive waste (Spain). We analyse the socio-ethical perspective of this facility's...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Gil-Cerezo V,Domínguez-Vilches E,González-Barrios AJ

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ingestion intakes of 137Cs of the Czech population were calculated in two different ways - either from the measured activity of 137Cs in components of food in combination with statistical data about consumption rates or from retention of 137Cs in the human body obtained by whole body counting or calculated from daily ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Škrkal J,Fojtík P,Malátová I,Bartusková M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for the determination of 90Sr in environmental water samples using Čerenkov radiation and low-level liquid scintillation counter Quantulus 1220 was applied and optimized. Low diffusion polyethylene vials, high performance glass counting vials and low potassium borosilicate glass vilas of 20 ml volume (all ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Todorović N,Stojković I,Nikolov J,Tenjović B

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the vertical distribution of the soil-soil-solution distribution coefficients (Kd) of 125I, 137Cs, and 85Sr in organic-rich surface soil and organic-poor subsurface soil of a pasture and an urban forest near a spent-nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho, Japan. Kd of 137Cs was highly correlated w...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Unno Y,Tsukada H,Takeda A,Takaku Y,Hisamatsu S

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among High Level Natural Radiation Areas (HLNRAs) all over the world, the northern coastal city of Ramsar has been considered enormously important. Many studies have measured environmental radioactivity in Ramsar, however, no survey has been undertaken to measure concentrations in the diets of residents. This study de...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Fathabadi N,Salehi AA,Naddafi K,Kardan MR,Yunesian M,Nodehi RN,Deevband MR,Shooshtari MG,Hosseini SS,Karimi M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the commonly used f-value for the 1001.03 keV (0.835 ± 0.004%) energy transition of the 234mPa was re-evaluated due to an obvious consistent overestimation of the 238U activity concentration. Different calibration protocols, samples' matrices and geometries, and gamma-ray spectrometers were exploited in ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Ebaid YY,Khater AEM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work focuses on studying concentration distribution of 222Rn radioisotope in a granite processing plant. Using Computational Fluid Dynamic Techniques (CFD), the exposure of the workers to radiation was assessed and, in order to minimise this exposure, different decontamination scenarios using ventilation were ana...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Dieguez-Elizondo PM,Gil-Lopez T,O'Donohoe PG,Castejon-Navas J,Galvez-Huerta MA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air samples were taken at various locations around The University of Texas at Austin's TRIGA Mark II research reactor and analyzed to determine the concentrations of 37Ar, 41Ar, and 133Xe present. The measured ratio of 37Ar/41Ar and historical records of 41Ar releases were then utilized to estimate an annual average r...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Johnson C,Biegalski SR,Artnak EJ,Moll E,Haas DA,Lowrey JD,Aalseth CE,Seifert A,Mace EK,Woods VT,Humble P

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia gas injection is a promising technique for the remediation of uranium within the vadose zone. It can be used to manipulate the pH of a system and cause co-precipitation processes that are expected to remove uranium from the aqueous phase and decrease leaching from the solid phase. The work presented in this pa...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Emerson HP,Di Pietro S,Katsenovich Y,Szecsody J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00