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Within the framework of the joint Russian-German summer expedition to the Laptev Sea in 1993 relatively high concentrations of 137Cs and 90Sr were found in the water and sediment environments of the sea. In the present paper, possible mechanisms of the radioactive contamination from adjacent marine and land areas are considered. It is shown that the main cause for enhanced levels of concentration of anthropogenic radionuclides in the Laptev Sea is transport by water and ice from the Kara Sea and adjacent parts of the Arctic Ocean
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Pavlov, V.K., Stanovoy, V.V., Nikitin, A.I. (1999). Possible Causes of Radioactive Contamination in the Laptev Sea. In: Kassens, H., et al. Land-Ocean Systems in the Siberian Arctic. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60134-7_8
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