... 1996.
88 . Food Standards Agency and Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Radio-
activity in Food and the Environment, 1997, RIFE-3, Food Standards Agency and
SEPA, London and Stirling, 19 98.
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1 986 , and later demonstrated a marked seasonal variation in the concentration
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by the ratio at equilibrium between the activity concentration in the animal
product considered and the amount ingested daily in the ... 680 0 l/kg in freshwater systems and
550 l/kg in the marine environment. These differences are explained by the
salinity and, more precisely, by the st...
... between the count rate of the γ-ray
standard and the sample counting efficiency is obtained using a set of
quenched standards.
The α particle-emitting radionuclides can be measured by a liquid scintillation
counter ... 10 MeV, and cannot be used for low-energy
- and x-rays because they cannot penetrate the aluminum detector window and
high-energy γ-rays might pass through...
... also increasingly being used in analytical devices. The unknown
analytical sample in the lab may also contain radioactivity. Samples of food and
environmental media contain myriad radionuclides in ...
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Radionuclide concentrations in food...
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Most of the radionuclides to which we are currently exposed in our foods
and the environment come primarily from the naturally occurring primordial,
secondary, ... sit in interim cooling
sites (ponds or air-cooled containers) so that the short-lived radionuclides pro-
duced during fission and neutron release...
...
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I in the
vicinity of the point of release. Predicted situation 24 hours from the beginning of the
release. The point of the release is the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The
source ... the emission of uranium and thorium series radionuclides to the environment,
increasing their air volume activities and causing exposure of human beings.
The mai...
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from the few works existing in the literature. With the exception of the samples
taken from 1957 to 1960, concentrations of
36
Cl and ... advection, weathering, decay, α-recoil, and
sorption/desorption at the water-rock interface, describing the evolution of con-
centrations of several
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On the other hand, artificial radionuclides are stored in the stratosphere and
fall to the Earth’s surface according to atmospheric ... the behavior of long-lived
radionuclides in soil.
Factors in uencing the behavior of radionuclides in soils are mainly the
chemical properties of the radioel...
... exposure and potential
effects. The difficulty arises in trying to measure them, either in the field or in a
laboratory setting, and then interpret them with regard to an organism’s radiosen-
sitivity. ... nuclear weapons was the
developing awareness of the existence and global distribution of radionuclides.
Interest grew in understanding where radionuclides went in the...