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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
environmental science
Distributions of
137
Cs and
210
Pb in moss collected from Belarus and Slovakia
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Volume 117, Year 2013
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Description
In the present work, moss samples collected in Slovakia and Belarus were assayed with respect to gamma-emitting radionuclides. The results for 137Cs and 210Pb are discussed. Moss was used for the first time in Belarus, as a biological indicator of radioactive environmental pollution in consequence of the Chernobyl accident in 1986. In Belarus, the maximum activity of 137Cs was observed in the Gomel region near Mazyr (6830 Bq/kg) and the minimum activity in the Vitebsyevsk Region near Luzhki-Yazno (5 Bq/kg). "Hot spots" were also observed near the towns Borisow and Yuratsishki. The results of measurements of 137Cs in moss samples collected in 2000, 2006 and 2009 in the same localities of Slovakia are presented and compared with the results of air monitoring of 137Cs carried out in Slovakia from 1977 until 2010. Measurements of the 210Pb concentration in moss samples collected over the territory of Slovakia showed, that the median value exceed 2.3 times median value of 210Pb obtained for Belarus moss. For that reason, the inhalation dose for man from 210Pb and 137Cs in Slovakia is more than twice as high as in Belarus, in spite of the initially very high 137Cs exposure in the latter country. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Aleksiayenak, Yu V.
Russian Federation, Dubna
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
Frontasyeva, Marina V.
Russian Federation, Dubna
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
Florek, M.
Slovakia, Bratislava
Univerzita Komenského V Bratislave
Sykora, I.
Slovakia, Bratislava
Univerzita Komenského V Bratislave
Holý, Karol
Slovakia, Bratislava
Univerzita Komenského V Bratislave
Masarik, J.
Slovakia, Bratislava
Univerzita Komenského V Bratislave
Brestakova, L.
Slovakia, Bratislava
Univerzita Komenského V Bratislave
Jeskovsky, M.
Slovakia, Bratislava
Univerzita Komenského V Bratislave
Steinnes, Eiliv
Norway, Trondheim
Norges Teknisk-naturvitenskapelige Universitet
Faanhof, Arnaud
South Africa, Pretoria
Necsa
Ramatlhape, K. I.
South Africa, Potchefstroom
North-west University
Statistics
Citations: 22
Authors: 11
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.jenvrad.2012.01.018
ISSN:
0265931X
Research Areas
Environmental