title: Long-term environmental radioactive contamination of Europe due to the Chernobyl accident - Results of the Joint Danube Survey 2013.
abstract: In the course of the Joint Danube Survey 3 (JDS3), coordinated by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), laboratory ships travelled 2375km down the Danube River engaging in sampling, processing and on-board analyses during the summer of 2013. The results of the radiometric analysis of90Sr,137Cs and natural radionuclides in recent riverbed sediment are presented. The activity concentrations of90Sr and137Cs in Danube sediments have been found below 100Bq/kg.
authors.affiliation: BEV - Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying, Austria; BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria; TU Wien - Technische Universität Wien, Austria. Electronic address: franz-josef.maringer@bev.gv.at.
authors.forename: Franz Josef
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Maringer
authors.affiliation: BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ackerl
authors.affiliation: BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Baumgartner
authors.affiliation: TU Wien - Technische Universität Wien, Austria.
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Burger-Scheidlin
authors.affiliation: TU Wien - Technische Universität Wien, Austria.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kocadag
authors.affiliation: TU Wien - Technische Universität Wien, Austria.
authors.forename: Johannes H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Sterba
authors.affiliation: BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stietka
authors.affiliation: TU Wien - Technische Universität Wien, Austria.
authors.forename: Jan Matthew
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Welch
mesh_terms: D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis*; D047852:Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; D005060:Europe; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D011197:Potassium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D011834:Radiation Monitoring; D045483:Rivers / Q000737:chemistry; D012588:Scintillation Counting; D013051:Spectrometry, Gamma; D013326:Strontium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D014875:Water Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D011197:Potassium Radioisotopes; C000615339:Potassium-40; D013326:Strontium Radioisotopes; D014875:Water Pollutants, Radioactive; C000614989:Cesium-137; C000615490:Strontium-90
keywords: (137)Cs; (90)Sr; Chernobyl contamination; Freshwater radioecology; Joint Danube Survey 3; Natural radionuclides; Radionuclide metrology