Environmental radioactivity study of Austrian and Bavarian forest ecosystems: Long-term behaviour of contamination of soil, vegetation and wild boar and its radioecological coherences.
137Cs and40K in soil, vegetation and flesh of wild boar samples from Austrian and Bavarian regions were investigated by gamma-ray spectrometry and90Sr in bones of wild boar with Liquid Scintillation Counting (LSC) after radiochemical separation. The soil core profiles revealed that 70-97% of the soil caesium content is still accumulated in the 0-10cm soil depth. From all vegetation samples the mushrooms, particularly the bay boletus showed the highest137Cs contamination. The activity concentration of137Cs in muscle tissue of boar ranged from 14.9±1.5Bq/kg (Bavaria) to 4711±377Bq/kg (Lower Austria). In the bones of wild boars,90Sr activity concentration ranged from 1.4±0.2Bq/kg (Bavaria) to 70.3±10.5Bq/kg (Upper Austria).
Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
Maria
M
Kocadag
University of Vienna, Austria.
Veronika
V
Exler
Technical University of Vienna, Austria.
Burger-Scheidlin
BS
Christopher
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Andreas
A
Baumgartner
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Michael
M
Stietka
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Austria.
Claudia
C
Landstetter
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Austria.
Martin
M
Korner
Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying (BEV), Austria.
Franz Josef
FJ
Maringer
D000818:Animals; D001317:Austria; D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D047852:Chernobyl Nuclear Accident; D005507:Food Contamination, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis; D065928:Forests; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008460:Meat / Q000032:analysis; D010945:Plants, Edible / Q000737:chemistry; D011834:Radiation Monitoring; D011848:Radioactive Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D012588:Scintillation Counting; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis*; D013051:Spectrometry, Gamma; D013326:Strontium Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis; D034421:Sus scrofa
D002588:Cesium Radioisotopes; D011848:Radioactive Pollutants; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive; D013326:Strontium Radioisotopes; C000614989:Cesium-137; C000615490:Strontium-90
Chernobyl; Environmental analysis; Gamma-ray spectrometry; Liquid scintillation counting; Radiocaesium; Radiostrontium; Soil; Vegetation; Wild boar