Abstract
Forests are a critical source of internal exposure to radiation pollution in the form of forest food (mushrooms and berries). Forests are more heavily polluted than open agricultural areas, because of the higher transfer coefficients of radionuclide migration. To evaluate the influence of forest food on the internal exposure dose to the population living in heavily contaminated forested regions, two population groups were identified, based on their usage of forest food. For the internal exposure dose calculation over the post-Chernobyl catastrophe period, the modeling of 137Cs migration in the forest ecosystem was taken into account.
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ORLOV, O., KOVALCHUK, A., LEVITSKY, V., SAMOLYUK, I., YANCHUK, V. (2007). RADIATION CONTAMINATION OF FOREST ECOSYSTEMS INVESTIGATION: FIELD EXPERIMENTS, MODELING AND SIMULATION. In: Marmiroli, N., Samotokin, B., Marmiroli, M. (eds) Advanced Science and Technology for Biological Decontamination of Sites Affected by Chemical and Radiological Nuclear Agents. NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences, vol 75. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5520-1_2
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