Anthropogenic radioactive particles in the environment
- authored by
- Georg Steinhauser
- Abstract
Radioactive particles have been released from multiple sources since the mid-twentieth century. Famous examples include nuclear fuel particles from Chernobyl, glassy microparticles from Fukushima as well as particles from nuclear weapons production facilities (e.g., Windscale, United Kingdom and the facilities in the former Soviet Union), nuclear weapons accidents at Palomares (Spain) and Thule (Greenland), and atmospheric nuclear explosions. Current challenges in environmental research of radioactive particles include the drying of the cooling pond of Chernobyl NPP, which will cause the weathering of previously preserved fuel particles in the (former) sediment of the pond. Environmental aspects of resuspended particles as well as natural particles and aerosols contaminated with radionuclides (e.g., 131I) are briefly discussed.
- Organisation(s)
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Centre for Radiation Protection and Radioecology
- Type
- Article
- Journal
- Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
- Volume
- 318
- Pages
- 1629-1639
- No. of pages
- 11
- ISSN
- 0236-5731
- Publication date
- 12.2018
- Publication status
- Published
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Analytical Chemistry, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging, Pollution, Spectroscopy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6268-4 (Access:
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