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Model for food chain transfer and dose assessment in areas of the Slovak Republic

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The radio-ecological model ECOSYS-87 developed for German ecological conditions, has been adapted to the conditions of two sub-regions in the Slovak Republic. In particular, the selection of plant varieties used for animal feeding, the plants’ growing cycles and harvests, the animal feeding practices and the human consumption rates were subjected to adaptation. Measurements of caesium and iodine radioactivity in soil, plants and animal products that have mainly been performed in the vicinity of the Bohunice nuclear power plant after the Chernobyl accident, are compared with the results of the adapted model. Data from various locations with dry, mixed or predominantly wet deposition show in general good agreement.

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  1. Nuclear Power Plant Research Institute Trnava Inc. (VUJE), Okruzna 5, 91864 Trnava, Slovakia, , , , ,

    Ondrej Slavik

  2. Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute, Gagarinova 10, 82713 Bratislava, Slovakia, , , , ,

    Emil Fulajtar

  3. GSF–National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Radiation Protection, Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany e-mail: heinz.mueller@gsf.de Tel.: +49-89-31872283, Fax: +49-89-31873363, , , , , , DE

    H. Müller & Gerhard Pröhl

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Received: 10 April 2000 / Accepted: 23 October 2000

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Slavik, O., Fulajtar, E., Müller, H. et al. Model for food chain transfer and dose assessment in areas of the Slovak Republic. Radiat Environ Biophys 40, 59–67 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004110000079

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