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
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Afficher plus [+] Moins [-]anglais. 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.
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