Activity concentrations of 137Cs and 40K in mosses from spas in Eastern Serbia
| Autor: | Marko Sabovljevic, Ana Cuculovic, Dragan S. Veselinović, Rodoljub Cuculovic |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Pollution
Radionuclide 40K biology 137Cs media_common.quotation_subject Sampling (statistics) biology.organism_classification Moss General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology mosses Eastern Serbia lcsh:Biology (General) radioactivity Environmental science Physical geography General Agricultural and Biological Sciences lcsh:QH301-705.5 radionuclides media_common |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Biological Sciences, Vol 64, Iss 3, Pp 917-925 (2012) |
| ISSN: | 1821-4339 0354-4664 |
| Popis: | With the aim of detecting the presence of radionuclides in moss samples in eastern Serbia, 129 samples of mosses were collected from 2000 to 2010 in the region of the spas: Sokobanja, Banja Jošanica and Gamzigradska banja. The data obtained show that 137Cs was present in all of the 129 samples from 3 sampling areas and 15 sampling localities and in 20 moss taxa. This indicates that pollution with this radionuclide resulting from the Chernobyl accident still exists. Changes in the average activity concentrations of 40K are within measurement error limits, while for 137Cs changes in the average activity concentrations are more noticeable, i.e. they have decreased with time. [Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia, project code III 43009.] |
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