abstract：:Radiocesium ((134)Cs + (137)Cs) deposition from the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident was measured in 20 woody plants (12 evergreen and 8 deciduous species) grown in Abiko (approximately 200 km SSW from the NPP). Leaves (needles) and twigs were sampled from each of three foliar positions (top, middle, and bottom)...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Yoshihara T,Matsumura H,Hashida SN,Nagaoka T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results obtained with the monitoring system set up to assess the impact of the Fukushima accident on the environment of Vojvodina (Northern Province of Serbia) are presented and discussed. Aerosol, rain, fresh milk and spinach samples were collected daily in the weeks following the accident. In the aerosol samples...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Bikit I,Mrda D,Todorovic N,Nikolov J,Krmar M,Veskovic M,Slivka J,Hansman J,Forkapic S,Jovancevic N

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radionuclides emitted from the Fukushima I nuclear power plant have been detected in air all over Europe. Concentrations remained far below levels which could have caused radiological concern: probably the committed thyroid dose due to inhalation remained below about 1 μSv (for 10 y children), within the investigated ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Bossew P,Kirchner G,De Cort M,de Vries G,Nishev A,de Felice L

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of (131)I, (137)Cs and (134)Cs in airborne aerosols were carried out in daily samples in Vilnius, Lithuania after the Fukushima accident during the period of March-April, 2011. The activity concentrations of (131)I and (137)Cs ranged from 12 μBq/m(3) and 1.4 μBq/m(3) to 3700 μBq/m(3) and 1040 μBq/m(3), respec...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Lujanienė G,Byčenkienė S,Povinec PP,Gera M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The irradiation effect of (60)Co at the three dose level of 3 mGy, 30 mGy and 300 mGy on the histology of liver of the freshwater fish Oreochromis mossambicus was investigated. The liver of O. mossambicus was dissected out and processed for light microscopy studies. (60)Co exposed O. mossambicus were found to result i...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Sadiq Bukhari A,Syed Mohamed HE,Broos KV,Stalin A,Singhal RK,Venubabu P

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective radium concentration EC(Ra), product of radium concentration and radon emanation, is the source term for radon release into the pore space of rocks and the environment. Over a period of three years, we performed more than 6000 radon-222 accumulation experiments in the laboratory with scintillation flasks and...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Girault F,Perrier F

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of Norwegian radiological monitoring of the Barents Sea in 2007, 2008 and 2009. Activity concentrations of the anthropogenic radionuclides (137)Cs, (90)Sr, (239,240)Pu and (241)Am in seawater were low and up to an order of magnitude lower than in previous decades. Activity concentration...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Gwynn JP,Heldal HE,Gäfvert T,Blinova O,Eriksson M,Sværen I,Brungot AL,Strålberg E,Møller B,Rudjord AL

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoor radon is regularly measured in Switzerland. However, a nationwide model to predict residential radon levels has not been developed. The aim of this study was to develop a prediction model to assess indoor radon concentrations in Switzerland. The model was based on 44,631 measurements from the nationwide Swiss r...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Hauri DD,Huss A,Zimmermann F,Kuehni CE,Röösli M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 11 March 2011, the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and a substantial tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan. The Fukushima nuclear power plants were inundated and stricken, followed by radionuclide releases outside the crippled reactors. Provisional regulation values for radioactivity in food and drink were set o...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Hamada N,Ogino H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the Great East Japan Earthquake and resulting Tsunami on March 11, 2011, serious accident of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant has been occurred. Huge amounts of radionuclides were released in atmosphere and ocean. Japanese prefectural governments have carried out environmental radioactivity monitoring;...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Hirose K

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of naturally occurring radionuclides (226)Ra, (228)Ra and (40)K were determined in five most consumed vegetables in a high-level background radiation area (HLBRA) in the southwest region of Cameroon. A total of 25 foodstuff samples collected from Akongo, Ngombas, Awanda, Bikoué and Lolodorf rural distri...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Ele Abiama P,Ben-Bolie GH,Amechmachi N,Najib F,El Khoukhi T,Owono Ateba P

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of measurements of (137)Cs in soils in Pest County, Hungary. We investigated forty five soil monoliths from monitoring locations of a countrywide Soil Information and Monitoring System (SIMS) at depths of 0-30, 30-60, 60-90, 90-120 and 120-150 cm. The (137)Cs concentrations were determi...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Szabó KZ,Udvardi B,Horváth A,Bakacsi Z,Pásztor L,Szabó J,Laczkó L,Szabó C

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative analysis of doses to the reference species of freshwater biota was performed for the following water bodies in Russia or former USSR: Chernobyl NPPs cooling pond, Lakes Uruskul and Berdenish located in the Eastern Urals Radioactive Trace, Techa River, Yenisei River. It was concluded that the doses to biota...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Kryshev AI,Sazykina TG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multivariate statistical techniques are efficient ways to display complex relationships among many objects. An attempt was made to study the radioactive data in two types of Sudanese phosphate deposits; Kurun and Uro phosphate, using several multivariate statistical methods. Pearson correlation coefficient revealed th...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Adam AM,Eltayeb MA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil erosion represents an important threat to the long-term sustainability of agriculture and forestry in many areas of the world, including southern Italy. Numerous models and prediction procedures have been developed to estimate rates of soil loss and soil redistribution, based on the local topography, hydrometeoro...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Porto P,Walling DE

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) have exhibited high sorption capacity for radionuclides due to the unique hollow structure and large surface area. In this study, surface properties of oxidized MWCNTs were characterized by using XRD, SEM, FTIR and potentiometric acid-base titration. The sorption of U(VI) on oxidi...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Sun Y,Yang S,Sheng G,Guo Z,Wang X

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to provide the parameter values required to model OBT formation in the edible parts of plants following a hypothetical accidental tritium release to the atmosphere at night. The parameters considered were leaf area index, stomatal resistance, photosynthesis rate, the photosynthetic prod...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Kim SB,Workman WG,Korolevych V,Davis PA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing interest in the dynamics of floodplain evolution and the important role of overbank sedimentation on river floodplains as a sediment sink has focused attention on the need to document contemporary and recent rates of overbank sedimentation. The potential for using the fallout radionuclides ¹³⁷Cs and excess ²¹⁰...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Du P,Walling DE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been carried out to assess the potential of using fallout plutonium (Pu), which originated from atmospheric nuclear-weapons tests, as a tool to investigate recent erosional processes within the lower Cotter water-supply catchment in the Australian Capital Territory. This catchment, which was predominantly ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Hoo WT,Fifield LK,Tims SG,Fujioka T,Mueller N

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uranium (U) internal distribution and involved effects in the bivalve Corbicula fluminea have been studied after direct chronic exposure (90 d, 10 μg.L-1). U distribution was assessed at the subcellular level (Metal Rich Granules -MRG-, pellets and cytosol fractions) in two main organs of the bivalve (gills and viscer...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Simon O,Floriani M,Cavalie I,Camilleri V,Adam C,Gilbin R,Garnier-Laplace J

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioiodine ((131)I) in air and rainwater as high as 497 μBq m(-3) and 0.7 Bq L(-1), respectively, as well as (137)Cs and (134)Cs in air as high as 145 μBq m(-3) and 126 μBq m(-3), respectively were recorded in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece (40°38'N, 22°58'E) from March 24, 2011 through April 09, 2011, after a nuclear...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Manolopoulou M,Vagena E,Stoulos S,Ioannidou A,Papastefanou C

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiological assessment of non-human biota to demonstrate protection is now accepted by a number of international and national bodies. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a scientific basis to assess and evaluate exposure of biota to ionizing radiation. Radionuclides from the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (Lithua...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Nedveckaite T,Filistovic V,Marciulioniene D,Prokoptchuk N,Plukiene R,Gudelis A,Remeikis V,Yankovich T,Beresford NA

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a sector-field ICP-MS the vertical distributions of the (99)Tc concentration and (99)Tc/(137)Cs activity ratio were measured in the coastal waters off Aomori Prefecture, Japan, where a spent-nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant has begun test operation. The (99)Tc concentrations in surface water ranged from 1.8 to 2....

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Nakanishi T,Zheng J,Aono T,Yamada M,Kusakabe M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples from a marine sediment core from the Irish Sea (54.416 N, 3.563 W) were analyzed for the isotopic composition of uranium, plutonium and americium by a combination of radiometric methods and AMS. The radiochemical procedure consisted of a Pu separation step by anion exchange, subsequent U separation by extracti...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Srncik M,Hrnecek E,Steier P,Wallner G

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common approach for remediation of groundwater contamination with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is contaminant stripping by means of in situ air sparging (IAS). For VOC stripping, pressurized air is injected into the contaminated groundwater volume, followed by the extraction of the contaminant-loaded exhaust ga...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Schubert M,Schmidt A,Müller K,Weiss H

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tritium occurs in nature in trace amounts, but its concentration is changing due to natural and artificial sources. Studies focusing on natural tritium have to take into account the effect of artificial sources. Also, the impact of tritium is an important issue in environmental protection, e.g. in connection with the ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Köllo Z,Palcsu L,Major Z,Papp L,Molnár M,Ranga T,Dombóvári P,Manga L

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a novel approach of measuring radon in-water in the field by inserting a MEDUSA gamma-ray detector into a 210 L or 1000 L container. The experimental measurements include investigating the effect of ambient background gamma-rays on in-field radon measurement, calibrating the detector efficiency usi...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Talha SA,de Meijer RJ,Lindsay R,Newman RT,Maleka PP,Hlatshwayo IN

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a preliminary survey at the area of an abandoned fertilizer plant, increased levels of radioactivity were measured at places, buildings, constructions and materials. The extent of the contamination was determined and the affected areas were characterized as controlled areas. After the quantitative and qualitati...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Stamatis V,Seferlis S,Kamenopoulou V,Potiriadis C,Koukouliou V,Kehagia K,Dagli C,Georgiadis S,Camarinopoulos L

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper reports the biosorption of uranium onto chemically modified yeast cells, Rhodotorula glutinis, in order to study the role played by various functional groups in the cell wall. Esterification of the carboxyl groups and methylation of the amino groups present in the cells were carried out by methanol a...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Bai J,Yao H,Fan F,Lin M,Zhang L,Ding H,Lei F,Wu X,Li X,Guo J,Qin Z

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the framework of a (222)Rn screening campaign that was carried out in 58 public secondary schools in Galicia (NW Spain), the largest radon-prone area in the Iberian Peninsula, a positive correlation between indoor (222)Rn concentration and outdoor gamma exposure rate was obtained. A new approach to the data acquisi...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Llerena JJ,Cortina D,Durán I,Sorribas R

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the spatial variability of K(d) on calculations of contaminant travel time in the vadose zone was determined. Depth discrete measurements of K(d) were made for a suite of radionuclides ((109)Cd, (57)Co, (60)Co, (85)Sr, (137)Cs, and (88)Y) utilizing a sediment core from the E-Area at the Savannah River Si...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Grogan KP,Fjeld RA,Kaplan D,DeVol TA,Coates JT

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transfer of (137)Cs into fish in seepage and drainage lakes from 1988 to 1992 was analysed using linear regression. Empirical results for (137)Cs in lake water and fish were used to calculate concentration factors (CFs). In the drainage lakes the CF decreased during the study period by 9% per year whereas in the s...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Saxén R,Heinävaara S,Rask M,Ruuhijärvi J,Rand H

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atmospheric (85)Kr concentration at Fukuoka, Japan was determined by an improved (85)Kr analytical method using liquid scintillation counting (LSC). An average value of 1.54 +/- 0.05 Bq m(-3) was observed in 2008, which is about two times that measured in 1981 at Fukuoka, indicating a 29 mBq y(-1) rate of increase as ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Momoshima N,Inoue F,Sugihara S,Shimada J,Taniguchi M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ra isotopes are a powerful tool for quantifying the flux of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) into the sea. Previous studies of 223Ra and 224Ra mass balances in coastal embayments have shown that the Ra balance is dominated by supply via SGD, exchange with the open ocean and radioactive decay. The current study sh...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Garcia-Orellana J,Cochran JK,Bokuniewicz H,Yang S,Beck AJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multitracers were used to study water mixing in the Paraíba do Sul River estuary region in August 2007 (dry season) and March 2008 (rainy season) and to evaluate the reach of the river plume in the direction of the open ocean. Two sampling campaigns were carried out, each in a different season. Based on these results,...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Souza TA,Godoy JM,Godoy ML,Moreira I,Carvalho ZL,Salomão MS,Rezende CE

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A shallow-land radioactive waste repository operated in boggy forest environment from 1963 to 1989. During the operation period, a considerable amount of technogenic radionuclides, in solidified state, was disposed into the vault established in the geological structure at the depth of up to 3m. Environmental monitorin...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Gudelis A,Gvozdaite R,Kubareviciene V,Druteikiene R,Lukosevicius S,Sutas A

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ore is considered as an important source of many elements such as the iron, phosphorus, and uranium. Concerning the natural radionuclides, their concentrations vary from an ore to other depending on the chemical composition of each site. In this work, two phosphate ores found in East of Algeria have been chosen to ass...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Lakehal Ch,Ramdhane M,Boucenna A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two former uranium mines and a uranium reprocessing factory in the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan, may represent a risk of contaminating the surrounding areas by uranium and its daughter elements. One of the possible fingerprinting tools for studying the environmental contamination is using plant samples, collected in the ...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Zoriy P,Ostapczuk P,Dederichs H,Höbig J,Lennartz R,Zoriy M

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment of (137)Cs inventories is often used to gain information on soil stability. The latter is crucial in mountain systems, where ecosystem stability is tightly connected to soil stability. In-situ measurements of (137)Cs in steep alpine environments are scarce. Most studies have been carried out in arable la...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Schaub M,Konz N,Meusburger K,Alewell C

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The migration of a contaminant through the environment is the result of the transport by a variety of biotic and abiotic carriers which move according to different dispersion mechanisms. Consequently, the patterns of the distribution of a pollutant in the environment cannot be ever explained on the basis of a single m...

journal_title：Journal of environmental radioactivity

authors： Monte L

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00