Transfer of Tritium Released into the Marine Environment by French Nuclear Facilities Bordering the English Channel
| Autor: | C Voiseux, Luc Solier, Julien Pommier, C. Cossonnet, P. Laguionie, Pascal Bailly du Bois, Bruno Fiévet |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse UMR5219 (IMT), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PSE-ENV/SRTE/LRC, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Géosciences Rennes (GR), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre Armoricain de Recherches en Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse Capitole (UT Capitole), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Radioécologie de Cherbourg-Octeville (IRSN/PSE-ENV/SRTE/LRC), Service de recherche sur les transferts et les effets des radionucléides sur les écosystèmes (IRSN/PSE-ENV/SRTE), Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)-Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre Armoricain de Recherches en Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean
Atmosphere 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Tritiated water [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] Radiochemistry Water General Chemistry 010501 environmental sciences Tritium 01 natural sciences Nuclear facilities chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry 13. Climate action Nuclear industry Radiation Monitoring [SDE]Environmental Sciences Environmental Chemistry Seawater 14. Life underwater Organically bound tritium 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Science and Technology Environmental Science and Technology, American Chemical Society, 2013, 47 (12), pp.6696-6703. ⟨10.1021/es400896t⟩ Environmental Science and Technology, 2013, 47 (12), pp.6696-6703. ⟨10.1021/es400896t⟩ |
| ISSN: | 0013-936X 1520-5851 |
| Popis: | International audience; Controlled amounts of liquid tritium are discharged as tritiated water (HTO) by the nuclear industry into the English Channel. Because the isotopic discrimination between 3H and H is small, organically bound tritium (OBT) and HTO should show the same T/H ratio under steady-state conditions. We report data collected from the environment in the English Channel. Tritium concentrations measured in seawater HTO, as well as in biota HTO and OBT, confirm that tritium transfers from HTO to OBT result in conservation of the T/H ratio (ca. 1 × 10 −16). The kinetics of the turnover of tritium between seawater HTO, biota HTO, and OBT was investigated. HTO in two algae and a mollusk is shown to exchange rapidly with seawater HTO. However, the overall tritium turnover between HTO and the whole-organism OBT is a slow process with a tritium biological half-life on the order of months. Nonsteady-state conditions exist where there are sharp changes in seawater HTO. As a consequence, for kinetic reasons, the T/H ratio in OBT may deviate transiently from that observed in HTO of samples from the marine ecosystem. Dynamic modeling is thus more realistic for predicting tritium transfers to biota OBT under nonsteady-state conditions. |
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