Chernobyl radioactivity on the Black Sea coast of Turkey

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1996-07-01

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Gokmen, IG
Akgoz, M
Gokmen, A

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After the Chernobyl reactor accident, Eastern Black Sea coast was one of the heavily contaminated regions of Turkey. Clouds loaded with radioactive isotopes arrived the region on May 1986 and emptied their contents with the heavy rains that are frequently seen in the region. In order to asses the current level of contamination, several different samples, moss, lichen, litter, surface soil and soil cores were collected on August 1994. Samples were brought to the laboratory and their moisture, pH and organic matter contents were determined. Gamma-ray spectra of the samples were collected with a HpGe detector. Cs-137 was the major isotope observed. Activity of most litter samples were below 1000 Bq/kg, while most of the moss samples had activities below 5000 Bq/kg, there were a few with higher Cs-137 activities. Surface soil samples generally had activities less than 2000 Bq/kg and depth profiles of cesium activities in the soil cores showed regional variations.

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Accident, Mosses

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66338

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FRESENIUS JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

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I. Gokmen, M. Akgoz, and A. Gokmen, “Chernobyl radioactivity on the Black Sea coast of Turkey,” FRESENIUS JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, pp. 736–738, 1996, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66338.