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A laboratory approach for investigations into the potential effectiveness of potassium-based fertilisers in reducing radiocesium transfer from soil to plant

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The paper presents a laboratory experimental model based on a simplesoil-plant system used to investigate the potential effectiveness of potassium-basedfertilisers in reducing soil-to-plant transfer of radiocesium. The soil-plantsystem, slightly modified comparing to that described originally in the NEUBAUER'splantlet method, consists in wheat plantlets grown from caryopsis phase onbrown acid soil contaminated with 137Cs resulted from Chernobylnuclear accident and treated with potassium salt of 30%. The effectivenessof 30% potassium salt applied to the soil as treatment is discussed in termsof reduction factor for 137Cs soil-to-plant transfer coefficientand 137Cs + :K + ratio in soil and plantlets.

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Breban, D.C. A laboratory approach for investigations into the potential effectiveness of potassium-based fertilisers in reducing radiocesium transfer from soil to plant. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 249, 633–637 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013214819274

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