Exemplifying the “wild boar paradox”
dynamics of cesium-137 contaminations in wild boars in Germany and Japan
- verfasst von
- Ole Berendes, Georg Steinhauser
- Abstract
Wild boars (Sus scrofa) are notorious for accumulating high contamination levels of 137Cs in their meat. Publicly available data of 137Cs contamination levels in wild boars from 2011 to 2019 were used to determine some radioecological characteristics in Germany (affected by Chernobyl-fallout, 1986) and Japan (affected Fukushima, 2011). The effective half-life of 137Cs in wild boar meat was much longer in Germany (7.3 y) than in Japan (2.6 y), respectively. Wild boars in Germany thus show much more persistent contamination levels than other game or forest animals. This unusual behavior has been termed “wild boar paradox.” In German wild boars, the data sets reveal a distinct geographical and seasonal dependence with higher activity concentrations in winter than in summer. In Japan, contamination levels only exhibit a distinct decline behavior.
- Organisationseinheit(en)
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Institut für Radioökologie und Strahlenschutz
- Externe Organisation(en)
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Technische Universität Wien (TUW)
- Typ
- Artikel
- Journal
- Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
- Band
- 331
- Seiten
- 5003-5012
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 10
- ISSN
- 0236-5731
- Publikationsdatum
- 12.2022
- Publikationsstatus
- Veröffentlicht
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Analytische Chemie, Kernenergie und Kernkraftwerkstechnik, Radiologie, Nuklearmedizin und Bildgebung, Umweltverschmutzung, Spektroskopie, Öffentliche Gesundheit, Umwelt- und Arbeitsmedizin, Gesundheit, Toxikologie und Mutagenese
- Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung
- SDG 3 – Gute Gesundheit und Wohlergehen
- Elektronische Version(en)
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-022-08528-2 (Zugang:
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