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After the Chernobyl accident, radioactive deposits affected wide forest and agricultural areas in Europe. In Belarus, 23% of the national forest cover are contaminated to radiocaesium levels >37 kBq.m-2 (1 Ci.km-2). The forest ecosystem as other perennial culture with a high biomass density helps in the long-term stabilisation of the contamination by acting as a reservoir of radionuclides. Nevertheless, the radiocaesium tends to accumulate in the vegetation woody biomass leading to increasing levels of radiopollutants in woody products with time.
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Thiry, Y., Riesen, T., Lewyckyj, N. (1999). Woody Biomass Production and Radiocaesium Accumulation Rate in Pine (Pinus Sylvestris L.) from a Contaminated Forest in the Vetka Area. In: Linkov, I., Schell, W.R. (eds) Contaminated Forests. NATO Science Series, vol 58. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4694-4_6
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