PLANT UPTAKE OF Cs-137 FROM NINE CANADIAN SOILS

Plant water uptake in drying soils.

Over the last decade, investigations on root water uptake have evolved toward a deeper integration of the soil and roots compartment properties, with the goal of improving our understanding of water acquisition from drying soils. This evolution parallels the increasing attention of agronomists to suboptimal crop production environments. Recent results have led to the description of root system ...

Chronic Cs-137 incorporation in children's organs.

In Belarus's Gomel region, which was heavily contaminated by fallout from the Chernobyl disaster, we have studied the evolution of the Cs-137 load in the organisms of the rural population, in particular children, since 1990. Children have a higher average burden of Cs-137 compared with that of adults living in the same community. We measured the Cs-137 levels in organs examined at autopsy. The ...

Global and local cancer risks after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident as seen from Chernobyl: a modeling study for radiocaesium ((134)Cs &(137)Cs).

The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Japan resulted in the release of a large number of fission products that were transported worldwide. We study the effects of two of the most dangerous radionuclides emitted, (137)Cs (half-life: 30.2years) and (134)Cs (half-life: 2.06years), which were transported across the world constituting the global fallout (together with io...

Temporal variations of Cs-137 in Sots Pine

Sweden belongs to an exclusive group of nine countries in the world with a forest cover greater than 65% of the land area. Forest products make a large proportion of Sweden’s net export income. Not only wood fibres but also berries and meat from the forests are important. Game hunting, reindeer farming, berries and mushroom gathering, as well as fresh water fishery, are all included in human fo...

Variation of Cs-137 in California Coastal Sea Water.