Soil sampling when examining forests for radioactive contamination

Radioactive contamination of scintillators

Low counting experiments (search for double β decay and dark matter particles, measurements of neutrino fluxes from different sources, search for hypothetical nuclear and subnuclear processes, low background α, β, γ spectrometry) require extremely low background of a detector. Scintillators are widely used to search for rare events both as conventional scintillation detectors and as cryogenic s...

Radioactive Particulate Air Sampling

Tools for forming strategies for remediation of forests and park areas in northern Europe after radioactive contamination: background and techniques

This report compiles background information that can be used in planning appropriate countermeasures for forest and park areas in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, in case a nuclear accident results in large-scale contamination of forests. The information is formulated to inform the forestry sector and radiation protection experts about the practicality of both forest management techniques a...

Metabolomics for Soil Contamination Assessment

Examination of Radioactive Contamination in the Soil-Plant System and Their Transfer to Selected Animal Tissues

This paper investigates gamma emitter radioactivity in a system consisting of soil and plants. Some selected samples of tissues of animals fed with the plants from these sites were also measured. In soil and plant samples artificial (Cs, Cs) and natural (thorium and uranium series) isotopes were detected. Despite the relatively high content of the natural isotopes in plants and their seeds, the...