Strategies for deployment of agricultural countermeasures

Wilkins, B.T.; Howard, B.J.; Desmet, G.; Alexakhin, R.M.; Maubert, H.

doi:10.1016/0048-9697(93)90373-e

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“…Together with radiostrontium and radioiodine, it is an important contributor of internal exposure through food chain pathways in accident scenarios. 1 The SCK.CEN, as an advisor of the Belgian government, has routinely monitored environmental nuclear contamination in Belgium since the late fifties. This work shows a limited historical overview of radiocesium contamination measurements by the SCK.CEN and a recent study of the geographical distribution of radiocesium on Belgian soil by means of in-situ gamma-spectrometry, carried out in collaboration with the Physics Laboratory of the University of Gent.…”

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Radiocesium contamination in Belgium

Pommé

Uyttenhove

Waeyenberge

et al. 1998

J Radioanal Nucl Chem

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Radiocesium contamination of air, rain, grass, milk and humans in Belgium from the late 1950s to present was measured. The main sources of fallout were atmospheric nuclear weapons tests and the Chernobyl accident; in Belgium the average impact of the first on the human body burden was more than six times higher. The geographical distribution of radiocesium fallout in Belgium was surveyed by means of in-situ gammaspectrometry with HPGe detectors.

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Radiocesium contamination in Belgium

Pommé

Uyttenhove

Waeyenberge

et al. 1998

J Radioanal Nucl Chem

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“…Such countermeasures are applied in the medium to long term, because direct crop contamination predominates immediately after the accident. Most countermeasures effort was dedicated to radiocesium and radiostrontium; they are the most widespread radionuclides and contribute most to the ingestion dose in the medium to long term (Wilkins et al 1993). Countermeasures effective for one radionuclide may, however, increase mobility and uptake of another radionuclide, and therefore several factors should be considered before deciding on the land management strategy.…”

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Agricultural land management options following large‐scale environmental contamination

Vandenhove

Turcanu

2011

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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The recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Japan, have raised questions about the accumulation of radionuclides in soils, the transfer in the food chain, and the possibility for restricted land use in the foreseeable future. This article summarizes what is generally understood about the application of agricultural countermeasures as a land management option to reduce the transfer of radionuclides in the food chain and to facilitate the return of potentially affected soils to agricultural practices in the vicinity of the Fukushima plant.

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Radionuclide Uptake from Soil to Plants: Influence of Soil Classification

Mollah

2014

Radionuclide Contamination and Remediation Through Plants

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The entry of trace contaminants, which are present in the terrestrial environment, into human food chains is controlled in the long term by their uptake by plant roots. The radionuclides released into the environment can give rise to human exposure by the transport through the atmosphere, through aquatic systems, or through soil subcompartments. Soil-to-plant factor is one of the important parameters to be used in transfer models for predicting the concentration of radionuclides in crops/plants and for estimating dose impacts to man. Existing databases are limited to experimental values in a restricted number of soil systems and are largely comprised of temperate environment data. In general, transfer factors show a large degree of variation dependent upon several factors such as soil type, species of plants, and other environmental conditions. Soil-to-plant transfers of the radionuclides varied considerably with the times of deposition also. In general, the variations with the deposition times were by a factor of up to 10. This chapter describes a review of published data on the transfer factor (TF) and classification of soils based on TFs.

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Strategies for deployment of agricultural countermeasures

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Radiocesium contamination in Belgium

Radiocesium contamination in Belgium

Agricultural land management options following large‐scale environmental contamination

Radionuclide Uptake from Soil to Plants: Influence of Soil Classification

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