Radiocaesium in mushrooms from northeast Italy, 1986-2002.
Late in the summer of 1986, the Health Physics Departments of Pordenone, Udine and Trieste, entrusted with monitoring radioactivity in the environment and food as a consequence of the Chernobyl accident, started noticing high concentrations of radionuclides--especially radiocaesium--in mushroom samples coming from different areas of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region (northeast Italy). To date, the authors have conducted 14 annual rounds of sampling and gamma spectrometry measurements on mushrooms, generating a total of over 2250 samples belonging to more than 300 species, which were picked in about 30 stations in the region. This surveys the main results from 15 years of macromycetes radiocontamination analysis in the region, the still unsolved problems, and hypotheses for future work.
Giovani
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ARPA Friuli Venezia Giulia, Dipartimento di Udine, Sezione di Fisica Ambientale, via Tavagnacco 91, 33100 Udine, Italy. Giovani@arpa.fvg.it
Garavaglia
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Scruzzi
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D000363:Agaricales / Q000737:chemistry*; D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis*; D047852:Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; D005504:Food Analysis / Q000379:methods; D005507:Food Contamination, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*; D007558:Italy; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring; D011847:Radioactive Fallout / Q000032:analysis*; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D019371:Topography, Medical / Q000379:methods
D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D011847:Radioactive Fallout