The Semipalatinsk area is highly contaminated with radioactive fallout from 40 years of continuous nuclear testing. The biological effects on human health in this area have not been studied. Significant remaining radioactivities include long-lived radioisotopes of 238,239,400Pu, 137Cs and 90Sr. To evaluate the long-term biological effects of the radioactive fallout, the incidence of micronuclei...

Participation in the interlaboratory comparisons (ILC) and PT schemes is an important tool to assess the laboratory competence. It allows also improving the quality of laboratory routine work and comparing its results with those of other laboratories. It can be also used to verify reliability of the data produced by a laboratory and provide confidence in measurement results to the users of labo...

A research programme sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety (BMU) was conducted during 1992 and 1993 in the Southern Urals, to provide an initial validation and comparison of results of population exposure arising from the release of radioactive waste from the MAYAK nuclear facility between the years 1948 and 1967. This programme inclu...

The distribution of natural (at the level global background) and technogenic radionuclides in groundwater industrial zone Sosnovy Bor town, where several nuclear power facilities are operating, was analyzed. main recorded samples cesium (137Cs), strontium (90Sr), tritium isotopes. first two aquifers from surface subject to contamination: Quaternary upper Lomonosov aquifer. Based on extensive ma...

The fission yield of 99Tc from 239Pu and 235U is similar to that of 137Cs or 90Sr and it is therefore an important component of nuclear weapons fall-out, nuclear waste and releases from nuclear facilities. There is particular current interest in 99Tc transfer from soil to plants for: (a) environmental impact assessments for terrestrial nuclear waste repositories, and (b) assessments of the pote...

A study on 137Cs pollution and activity concentrations of 40K in mushrooms of the genera Cortinarius, Leccinum, Russula, Tricholoma, Tylopilus, and Xerocomus from two neighboring regions in southwest China in 2010-2013 revealed different patterns of pollution with 137Cs, which seemed to be highly dependent on climate conditions. Tricholoma matsutake was collected in Yunnan before and after the ...

اهتفاقثو اهرخفو ةملأا ةيأ ةيوه نم أزجتي لا اءزج يرامعملا ثارتلا لكشي . ةيخيراتلا ةرامعلا رصانع نا يف اهؤانبو اهميمصت مت دق ةيملاسلإا تابلطتمل يويحو لاعف لكشب ةباجتسلاا ىلع ةرداق نوكت ثيحب يضاملا ةينيدلاو ةيسفنلاو ةيعامتجلااو ةيئيبلاو ةيداملا سانلا . رضاحلا تقولا يف نويرامعملا نوسدنهملا موقي رصانعلا ذخأب اوذخأي ام ةداعو ميمصتلا عيراشم يف اهلاخدا و ةيملاسلإا ةيخيراتلا ينابملا نم ةفلتخملا نيوكت ر...

In a first experiment of soil contaminated with 137Cs, inoculation with a mixture of arbuscular mycorrhizae enhanced the uptake of 137Cs by leek under greenhouse conditions, while no effect on the uptake by ryegrass was observed. The mycorrhizal infection frequency in leek was independent of whether the 137Cs-contaminated soil was inoculated with mycorrhizal spores or not. The lack of mycorrhiz...