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137Cs baseline levels in the Mediterranean and Black Sea: A cross-basin survey of the CIESM Mediterranean Mussel Watch programme
2008
Thébault, H. | Baena, A.M., | Andral, B. | Barisic, D. | Albaladejo, J.B. | Bologa, A.S. | Boudjenoun, R. | Delfanti, R. | Egorov, V.N. | El Khoukhi, T. | Florou, H. | Kniewald, G. | Noureddine, A. | Patrascu, V. | Pham, M.K. | Scarpato, A. | Stokozov, N.A. | Topcuoglu, S. | Warnau, M.
The common mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis was selected as unique biomonitor species to implement a regional monitoring programme, the CIESM Mediterranean Mussel Watch (MMW), in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. As of today, and upon standardization of the methodological approach, the MMW Network has been able to quantify 137Cs levels in mussels from 60 coastal stations and to produce the first distribution map of this artificial radionuclide at the scale of the entire Mediterranean and Black Seas. While measured 137Cs levels were found to be very low (usually <1 Bq kg-1 wet wt) 137Cs activity concentrations in the Black Sea and North Aegean Sea were up to two orders of magnitude higher than those in the western Mediterranean Basin. Such effects, far from representing a threat to human populations or the environment, reflect a persistent signature of the Chernobyl fallout in this area. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Show more [+] Less [-]137Cs baseline levels in the Mediterranean and Black Sea: A cross-basin survey of the CIESM Mediterranean Mussel Watch programme
2008
Thébault, H. | Baena, A.M., Rodriguez y | Andral, B. | Barisic, D. | Albaladejo, J.B. | Bologa, A.S. | Boudjenoun, R. | Delfanti, R. | Egorov, V.N. | El Khoukhi, T. | Florou, H. | Kniewald, G. | Noureddine, A. | Patrascu, V. | Pham, M.K. | Scarpato, A. | Stokozov, N.A. | Topcuoglu, S. | Warnau, M. | Laboratoire d'étude radioécologique du milieu continental et marin (IRSN/DEI/SESURE/LERCM) ; Service d'étude et de surveillance de la radioactivité dans l'environnement (IRSN/DEI/SESURE) ; Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)-Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN) | Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER) | Center for Marine and Environmental Research ; Rudjer Boskovic Institute [Zagreb] | Instituto Español de Oceanografía - Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) ; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas [España] = Spanish National Research Council [Spain] (CSIC) | National Institute for Marine Research and Development "Grigore Antipa" (NIMRD) | Agenzia Nazionale per le nuove Tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile = Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) | NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UKRAINE KHARKOV UKR ; Partenaires IRSTEA ; Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA) | Centre National de l'Énergie, des Sciences et des Techniques Nucléaires = National Center for Energy, Science and Nuclear Techniques (CNESTEN) | National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" (NCSR) | Marine Environment Laboratories [Monaco] (IAEA-MEL) ; International Atomic Energy Agency [Vienna] (IAEA) | I.C.R.A.M. - Central Institute for Applied Marine Research ; I.C.R.A.M. - Central Institute for Applied Marine Research
International audience | The common mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis was selected as unique biomonitor species to implement a regional monitoring programme, the CIESM Mediterranean Mussel Watch (MMW), in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. As of today, and upon standardization of the methodological approach, the MMW Network has been able to quantify 137Cs levels in mussels from 60 coastal stations and to produce the first distribution map of this artificial radionuclide at the scale of the entire Mediterranean and Black Seas. While measured 137Cs levels were found to be very low (usually <1 Bq kg-1 wet wt) 137Cs activity concentrations in the Black Sea and North Aegean Sea were up to two orders of magnitude higher than those in the western Mediterranean Basin. Such effects, far from representing a threat to human populations or the environment, reflect a persistent signature of the Chernobyl fallout in this area. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Show more [+] Less [-]Monitoring of natural radioactive elements in some foliose lichens. | Recherche d'elements radioactifs naturels dans quelques lichens foliaces.
1996
Daillant, O. (Observatoire Mycologique, Mazille (France)) | Kirchner, G. | Jacquiot, L. | Lecointe, A. | Tillier, C. | Van Haluwyn, C.
Des elements radioactifs des familles de l'Uranium 238 et du Thorium 232 ont ete recherches dans des echantillons de Parmelia suicata et de Xanthoria parietina provenant de biotopes differents. Ces especes ont ete utilisees dans le suivi de la bio-accumulation de ces elements, emis par une centrale thermique fonctionnant au charbon, en Saone-et-Loire. Les concentrations, naturelles ou anthropiques, de la plupart de ces radioelements dans les lichens diminuent selon le site de la facon suivante: decharge radifere zone fortement uranifere zone industrielle zone rurale. Le caractere problematique de certains de ces elements est souligne et un tableau de resultats obtenus sur des echantillons de differentes especes d'une station a sol uranifere est propose a titre de reference.
Show more [+] Less [-]Accumulation of 137Cs and 90Sr from contaminated soil by three grass species inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi
1999
Entry, J.A. | Watrud, L.S. | Reeves, M. (USDA Agricultural Research Service, Northwest Irrigation and Soil Research Laboratory, 3793 N 3600 E, Kimberly, ID 83341 (USA))
Plant uptake of radionuclides in lysimeter experiments
1998
Gerzabek, M.H. | Strebl, F. | Temmel, B. (Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf, Division of Life Sciences, A-2444 Seibersdorf (Austria))
Foliar leaching of 137Cs from Eriophorum vaginatum L., Scirpus caespitosus L. and Erica tetralix L
1998
Jones, D.R. | Eason, W.R. | Dighton, J. (Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, SY23 3EB (United Kingdom))
Differences in root uptake of radiocaesium by 30 plant taxa
1997
Broadley, M.R. | Willey, N.J. (Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, Frenchay, Bristol BS16 1QY (United Kingdom))
Anthropogenic impacts on natural nitrogen isotope variations in Pinus sylvestris stands in an industrially polluted area
1997
Jung, K. | Gebauer, G. | Gehre, M. | Hofmann, D. | Weissflog, L. | Schuurmann, G. (Department of Chemical Ecotoxicology, Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, P.O. Box 2, D-04301 Leipzig (Germany))
A review of radionuclides in the tide-washed pastures on the Irish sea coast in England and Wales and their transfer to food products
1996
Howard, B.J. | Livens, F.R. | Walters, C.B. (Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Merlewood Research Station, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria LA11 6JU (United Kingdom))
Concentration levels of technetium-99 in forest soils collected within the 30-km zone around the Chernobyl reactor
1999
Uchida, S. | Tagami, K. | Wirth, E. | Ruhm, W. (Environmental and Toxicological Sciences Research Group, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 9-1 Anagawa 4-chome, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, 263-855 (Japan))