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Determination of tritium levels in environmental samples around NIPNE, Romania from 2007 to 2017

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National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (NIPNE) Romania is located in Măgurele and approximately 10 km from Bucharest. A continued surveillance over the past 10 years offers the opportunity to verify the tritium releases, but also for development of monitoring methods. The determined levels are well below the maximum admissible limits for environmental samples. Dose values have no impact on the environment and have an insignificant contribution to the cumulative annual dose. Comparison with global, regional and zonal levels highlights the role played by its emissions in the Lower Danube Basin, the Romanian Plain and the Danube Meadow.

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This work was supported by following national fundings: PNCDI 51-053/2007, PN 09 37 03 01, PN2 Large Capacities—Developing Infrastructure for Frontier Research in Nuclear Physics and Related Fields (IV), and PN 16 42 02 03 Projects; with special thanks to Mihaela Teodorescu, Monica Bădoi and Sorin Dumitru, NIPNE, Life and Environmental Sciences Department.

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Simion, C.A., Stochioiu, A., Mocanu, N. et al. Determination of tritium levels in environmental samples around NIPNE, Romania from 2007 to 2017. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 321, 659–670 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-019-06635-1

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