Radioisotope contaminations from releases of the Tomsk–Seversk nuclear facility (Siberia, Russia)

History of the Pollution in Tomsk Region (Siberia, Russia) According to the Study of High-Moor Peat Formations

“…The specific activity measurements for 137 Cs and 210 Pb were carried out by the gamma-spectrometric analysis [20]. The specific activity measurements for Pu were carried out by the alpha-spectrometric analysis [20].…”

A regional approach for the calculation of characteristic toxicity factors using the USEtox model

“…Moreover, the Tomsk district is of interest because this area contains many industrial sites, for example the Northern industrial unit is located close to Seversk city. More than thirty industrial complexes are located within the Northern industrial unit, including the world's largest nuclear fuel cycle enterprise -the Siberian Chemical Plant (Gauthier-Lafaye et al, 2008;Ilyinskikh et al, 1998;Mezhibor, 2011), and the largest oil and gas processing plant in Russia -Sibur (formerly Tomsk Petrochemical Plant).…”

“…Bioindication provides information about the direct reaction of organisms, communities or ecosystems to natural or anthropogenic changes (Durkalec et al, 2018), since the biota reacts even to minor changes in external conditions and can even predict the geographical origin (Denisova et al, 2008;Franke et al, 2005;Gauthier-Lafaye et al, 2008;Huang et al, 2017;Ilyinskikh et al, 1998;Sheppard, 2011). The concentration of metals in the body of animals and human beings depends, not only on anthropogenic activity (Durkalec et al, 2018), but also on type of diet (Wang et al, 2014;Zhao et al, 2016), physiological specification of organs and tissues (Carpenè et al, 2017), and genetic characteristics of organism (Demirezen and Uruç, 2006).…”

Nanoscale zero-valent iron particles for the remediation of plutonium and uranium contaminated solutions

“…Perhaps most notable is the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in the Russian Federation where, as a result of several decades of nuclear fuel reprocessing, plutonium storage and the 1957 Kyshtym disaster, soil and vegetation activities of up to several MBq m -2 have been recorded across the site. [2] The considerable radioactivity of the plutonium isotopes means that inventories of 239+240 Pu at Mayak have consistently contributed several kBq m -2 , [2], [3] a significant fraction of the total site radiation levels. In the UK, elevated radioactivity has previously been recorded for water samples taken in proximity to the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria, England.…”