[Sources of natural and artificial radioactive contamination in the marine environment].
Sources of natural and artificial radioactive contamination in the marine environment. The Chernobyl accident produced the most severe contamination of Europe, still detectable in environmental samples, but many other sources of artificial and natural radioactivity have produced a considerable impact on the environment and a risk for the public health. In this paper a review of the most important events or industrial processes that produced contamination of the European seas is presented; moreover, attention is paid to the situation of the coastal marine environment in Italy as regards the artificial radioactivity and the human enhanced radioactivity produced by non nuclear plants.
Nuccetelli
Cristina
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Laboratorio di Fisica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, V.le Regina Elena 299, 00161 Roma. nuccetelli@iss.inFn.it
D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*; D001417:Background Radiation; D007221:Industry; D007558:Italy; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D014455:Ukraine; D014878:Water Pollution, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*
D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive