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Migration of Radionuclides in Topsoil and Vegetation Cover in the Territory of an Underground Nuclear Explosion in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

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Data about the content of 137Cs and 90Sr in topsoil and flora specimens in an area that was subject to an accidental underground nuclear explosion are presented. The radiological and environmental situation in the surveyed territory is shown to remain unfavorable.

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  1. Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ecological Problems of the Cryolite Zone, pr. Lenina 41, 677891, Yakutsk, Russia

    P. I. Sobakin, A. P. Chevychelov & I. V. Molchanova

  2. Ural Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, ul. Vos’mogo Marta 202, 620144, Yekaterinburg, Russia

    P. I. Sobakin, A. P. Chevychelov & I. V. Molchanova

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Translated from Defektoskopiya, Vol. 40, No. 9, 2004, pp. 85–91. Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Sobakin, Chevychelov, Molchanova

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Sobakin, P.I., Chevychelov, A.P. & Molchanova, I.V. Migration of Radionuclides in Topsoil and Vegetation Cover in the Territory of an Underground Nuclear Explosion in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Russ J Nondestruct Test 40, 637–642 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11181-004-0011-7

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