scholarly journals Origin and age of an ongoing radioactive contamination of soils near La hague reprocessing plant based on 239+240Pu/238Pu and 241Am/241Pu current ratios and 90Sr and Ln(III) soil contents

Chemosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 270 ◽  
pp. 129332
Author(s):  
Pierre-André Pittet ◽  
Mylène Josset ◽  
David Boilley ◽  
Antoine Bernollin ◽  
Guillaume Rougier ◽  
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Author(s):  
I.K. Romanovich

The article presents approaches to the establishment of criteria (requirements) of radiation safety to the decontaminated areas of the territory, buildings and decommissioned facilities of use of atomic energy and other types of practical activities with sources of ionizing radiation. The main directions of further use of the decontaminated areas of the territory, buildings, and constructions, including 5 scenarios of restricted and unrestricted use, are determined; the criteria of radiation safety in the term of a dose constraint of a critical group of the population in 0.3 mSv/year living or working on decontaminated objects are established; the controlled parameters of the radiation situation and their levels, as well as the list of radionuclides subject to control are justified. The article presents the values of specific activity (Bq/kg) of residual radioactive contamination of soils and materials of buildings and structures, the radiation dose to the population in which will not exceed 0.3 mSv/year. Based on the presented data, draft sanitary rules and guidelines have been developed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
O. I. Stoianov ◽  
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M. I. Panasiuk ◽  
V. E. Ivanova ◽  
G. V. Levin ◽  
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The experience of using the method of spectrometric gamma-logging of wells for assessment of radioactive contamination of soils on the sites of foundation pits excavation for the New Safe Confinement foundations is presented in the article. Analysis of the photopic/Compton ratio in the gamma-ray spectra of the wellbore allowed us to identify the types of soil contamination: the volumetric contamination, which is associated with real radioactive contamination, and the surface contamination, which is identified as introduced by drilling. This task is especially relevant for determining the boundaries of contaminated/clean soils, which had an impact on determining the depth of pits and, as a result, on the volume of soils to be developed. The use of spectrometric gammalogging of wells made it possible to correctly predict the categories and volumes of radioactive waste, which were soil to be extracted during excavation. Directions for further improvement of the method of spectrometric gamma-logging to clarify the characteristics of radioactive waste are considered in the article.


2016 ◽  
pp. 68-73
Author(s):  
M. Vasylenko ◽  
V. Zosimov ◽  
O. Dmytrenko ◽  
L. Shylo ◽  
M. Kostiuchenko

The studies summarized and analyzed the results of radiological contamination of soil in Kiev region over thirty years after the Chernobyl accident. These findings on individual farms and areas were to deter- mine the concentrations of radiological (radioactive) contamination of agricultural lands of Kiev region. It is found that the radiation situation is somewhat improved.


2008 ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
René Gilis ◽  
Patrick Lewandowski ◽  
Bart Ooms ◽  
Nancy Reusen ◽  
Willem Van Laer ◽  
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Author(s):  
Olga Merzlova

One of the measures to eliminate the consequences of the Chernobyl accident was the exclusion of highly contaminated land from agricultural use. Due to the positive dynamics of the radiation situation, the issue of land return becomes relevant. However, in the period of exclusion of these lands the land clearance degradation processes were developing. The second part of the article is devoted to the issue of economic evaluation of the expediency of land return and the mutual coordination of the results of separate stages of complex ecological and economic evaluation. The research was carried out in Mogilev branch Institute of radiology (Republic of Belarus).


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (6) ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Olga Merzlova

One of the measures to eliminate the consequences of the Chernobyl accident was the exclusion of highly contaminated land from agricultural use. During the natural decay of radionuclides there is a decrease in the activity of 137Cs and 90Sr in the soil. The issue of land return becomes relevant. The article describes the main stages of formation of the system of criteria and indicators of ecological and economic evaluation of the expediency of land return. The first part of the article is devoted to the issue of radiological evalation.


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