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Behavior of Radionuclides in the Environment II pp 3–74Cite as

Atmospheric Transport of Radionuclides Initially Released as a Result of the Chernobyl Accident

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A brief overview of the characteristics of the Chernobyl release is provided here, including the radionuclide release activity, radionuclide and physicochemical composition of the release, and the available estimates of the temporal dynamics of the released materials and the release initial height. An overview of the meteorological conditions of emission transport is given. The main results of the measurements of radioactive contamination due to the Chernobyl accident on different spatial scales are presented, including within the Chernobyl exclusion zone and over Europe. The results of modeling the radionuclide atmospheric transport and their deposition on the underlying surface, including the results of the reconstruction of the emission source parameters, are given. The review of the measurement of radioactive contamination of air and the underlying surface with iodine isotopes during an initial stage of the accident is given, the same as the results of a reconstruction of the iodine contamination fields in the territory of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.

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Talerko, M., Garger, E., Lev, T., Nosovskyi, A. (2020). Atmospheric Transport of Radionuclides Initially Released as a Result of the Chernobyl Accident. In: Konoplev, A., Kato, K., Kalmykov, S. (eds) Behavior of Radionuclides in the Environment II. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3568-0_1

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