Food contamination caused by radioisotopes released from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is of great public concern. The contamination risk for food items should be estimated depending on the characteristics and geographic environments of each item. However, evaluating current and future risk for food items is generally difficult because of small sample sizes, high detection limits, ...

Fallout from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident resulted in a 3000-km2 radioactive contamination plume. Here, we model the progressive dilution of the radiocesium contamination in 327 sediment samples from two neighboring catchments with different timing of soil decontamination. Overall, we demonstrate that there has been a ~90% decrease of the contribution of upstream contamin...

The paper presents the results of determining 137Cs content in biomass lichen Hypogymnia physodes, which growing pine forests on territory Gomel region with various levels radioactive contamination.The research was carried out both conditionally clean and radioactively contaminated areas soil contamination density from 37 to 1488 kBq m-2. high accumulating capacity physodes relation shown, as w...

Manzala Lake, the largest in Egypt’s Nile Delta, has significant human activity. The Lake’s ecological condition recently been impacted by a increase agricultural, industrial, and urban wastewater discharge. Avaluable tool for monitoring water quality of Manzal aLake is sensitivity invertebrate species to various types pollution, such as radioactive contamination. Activity concentrations radion...