title: Radiocesium levels measured in breast milk one year after the reactor accident at Chernobyl.
abstract: One hundred-two samples of colostral milk, collected during spring of 1987, approximately one year after the reactor accident at Chernobyl, were measured for radiocesium contamination. The data showed a normal-type distribution with a mean contamination concentration of 16.4 Bq L-1. A weak correlation of the data to the mothers' diet was established by taking into account four of the main staples in the area. The corresponding transfer coefficient was deduced with a value of fm = 0.06 +/- 0.03 d L-1. The resultant effective dose received by breast-feeding infants was estimated, on the average, as 0.012 mrem d-1.
authors.affiliation: Nuclear Physics Laboratory, University of Ioannina, Greece.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Assimakopoulos
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Ioannides
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Pakou
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lolis
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zikopoulos
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dusias
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000032:analysis*; D009688:Nuclear Reactors; D011847:Radioactive Fallout / Q000032:analysis*; D013997:Time Factors; D014455:Ukraine
chemical_list: D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D011847:Radioactive Fallout