title: Caesium-137 and caesium-134 levels in soil in a tea plantation in Turkey after the Chernobyl accident.
abstract: Gamma-ray scintillation spectrometry has been used to measure the 137Cs and 134Cs levels and depth distributions in soil of a tea plantation in the Eastern Black Sea region in Turkey. Soil samples were collected in November 1987. The depth distribution was found to be exponential with alpha = 0.16 cm-1 and the exposure rate arising therefrom is calculated as 17.46 mu R/h over ground surface.
authors.affiliation: Mechanical Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yeşin
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Cakir
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis*; D009688:Nuclear Reactors; D011847:Radioactive Fallout / Q000032:analysis*; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*; D013662:Tea / Q000032:analysis*; D014421:Turkey; D014455:Ukraine
chemical_list: D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D011847:Radioactive Fallout; D012989:Soil Pollutants; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive; D013662:Tea