“…These results are in accordance with the works of Baldini et al (1987) and Monte et al (1990) on 137 Cs and 103 Ru, Bengtsson (1992) and Zehnder et al (1995) on 134 Cs and 85 Sr, and Gouthu et al (1999) on Rb, Zn, Fe, Nb, Cr, and Sc, who demonstrated that mobile radionuclides (Cs, Zn, Fe, and Rb) accumulated mainly in the fruit of trees after foliar contamination (in average 25% of the intercepted radioactivity), while radionuclides with a low mobility (Nb, Cr, Sc, Sr) were not present in the fruit. In the same way, Bittel and Clément (1965), Gerdung et al (1999), and Middleton and Squire (1963) showed a translocation of mobile 134 Cs from potato leaves to tubers (storage organ) similar to the 63 Ni translocation observed in our experiment from radish leaves to filling storage roots (20–50% in the potato tubers and 19 ± 2% to 36 ± 4% in the radish roots). These authors also measured a translocation of 134 Cs of 20% from bean leaves to bean fruit, while we found from 24 ± 13% to 48 ± 15% of the retained 63 Ni in the bean fruit (husks and seeds) according to the method of leaf contamination.…”