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Radionuclide transfer to marine biota species: review of Russian language studies

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An extensive programme of experiments on transfer of radionuclides to aquatic species was conducted in the former USSR starting from the early 1950s. Only a few of these studies were made available in the English language literature or taken into account in international reviews of radionuclide behaviour in marine ecosystems. Therefore, an overview of original information on radionuclide transfer to marine biota species available from Russian language literature sources is presented here. The concentration ratio (CR) values for many radionuclides and for marine species such as: 239Pu, 106Ru and 95Zr (crustacean), 54Mn, 90Sr, 95Nb, 106Ru, 137Cs 239Pu, 241Am and natural U (molluscs), and 54Mn, 90Sr, 137Cs and 144Ce (fish) are in good agreement with those previously published, whilst for some of them, in particular, for 32P and 110Ag (crustaceans), 35S (molluscs), 32P, 35S, 95Nb, and 106Ru (macroalgae) and 60Co and 239,240Pu (fish) the data presented here suggest that changes in the default CR reference values presented in recent marine reviews may be required. The data presented here are intended to supplement substantially the CR values being collated within the handbook on Wildlife Transfer Coefficients, coordinated under the IAEA EMRAS II programme.

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    S. Fesenko & A. Gondin Fonseca

  2. Russian Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agroecology, 249020, Obninsk, Russia

    E. Fesenko, I. Titov, E. Karpenko & N. Sanzharova

  3. Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, Grini næringspark 13, Postbox 55, 1332, Østerås, Norway

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This paper is based on a presentation made at the second meeting of the Wildlife Transfer Coefficient Handbook Working Group of the IAEA EMRAS II programme (held at the IAEA, Vienna, 22–24 July 2009).

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Fesenko, S., Fesenko, E., Titov, I. et al. Radionuclide transfer to marine biota species: review of Russian language studies. Radiat Environ Biophys 49, 531–547 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00411-010-0324-y

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