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Influence of Gas Aerosol Emissions of the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant on the Radiation Background of Southern Waters

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The possible influence of emissions of radioactive gas aerosols from the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) on the formation of the general radioecological background in the southern region of Russia, in the waters of the Sea of Azov and the Caspian Sea, and in Tsimlyansk Reservoir is analyzed. Publications and long-term data of the expedition for radioecological observations of the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Kola Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Federal Research Center, Southern Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, in the Azov–Don basin are systematized. An idea is given about the general sedimentation patterns of artificial radionuclides in the reservoirs of this region. It is assumed that, after the international prohibition of nuclear weapons tests in three environments (1963) and the cessation of emissions from the Chernobyl NPP, a relatively stable concentration of man-made radionuclides is maintained in the southern marine and freshwater basins, inter alia, by constant atmospheric precipitation, including the fallout of aerosol gas emissions from the Rostov NPP. Recommendations for radioecological monitoring in the reservoirs of the region studied are given.

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This work was carried out under a State Assignment of the Federal Research Center, Southern Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-05-50099), as well as under a State Assignment of Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Kola Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Federal Research Center, Southern Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 344006, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    G. G. Matishov & V. V. Polshin

  2. Murmansk Marine Biological Institute, Kola Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 183010, Murmansk, Russia

    G. G. Matishov, G. V. Ilyin & I. S. Usyagina

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Matishov, G.G., Polshin, V.V., Ilyin, G.V. et al. Influence of Gas Aerosol Emissions of the Rostov Nuclear Power Plant on the Radiation Background of Southern Waters. Dokl. Earth Sc. 503, 220–225 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X22040110

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