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A 'Reference Site' in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: radionuclide and stable element data, and estimated dose rates
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2018-02-20
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/ae02f4e8-9486-4b47-93ef-e49dd9ddecd4
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- Beresford, N.A., Gaschak, S., Barnett, C.L., Maksimenko, A., Guliaichenko, E., Wells, C., Chaplow, J.S. (2018). A 'Reference Site' in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: radionuclide and stable element data, and estimated dose rates. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/ae02f4e8-9486-4b47-93ef-e49dd9ddecd4
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- Environmental survey
- Soil
- Pollution
- Radioecology
- Chornobyl
- ICRP
- Reference animals and plant
- plutonium
- strontium
- caesium
- americium
- stable element
- NERC RATE TREE project
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- © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Beresford, N.A., Gaschak, S., Barnett, C.L., Maksimenko, A., Guliaichenko, E., Wells, C., Chaplow, J.S. (2018). A 'Reference Site' in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: radionuclide and stable element data, and estimated dose rates. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ae02f4e8-9486-4b47-93ef-e49dd9ddecd4
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- 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2005-07-01
- End date
- 2015-06-30
- Code
- WGS 84
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- The sampling site (0.4 km2) was located towards the western edge of the Red Forest, approximately 5 km west-southwest of the Chernobyl Unit Number 4). The site was not within the area where pine trees were killed by high exposure levels in 1986. Most of the site was formerly used as kitchen gardens ('dacha') by the residents of Pripyat. With the exception of Pinus sylvestris, all samples were collected from an area of the former kitchen gardens with a number of fruit trees which was about 0.06 km2 in area; this is subsequently referred to as the 'inner sampling area'. The predominant soil type of the sampling site was soddy-podzolic sandy loam and the surrounding habitats were largely deciduous woodland (some of which was previously agricultural land) and marsh. All samples were collected over a period of about 1 month in May/June 2014. Although sampling was focussed on species falling into the ICRP RAP definitions (after Barnett et al. 2014), additional species caught were analysed for 90Sr and 137Cs activity concentrations. Sample types include wild grass, pine tree, earthworm, bee and other insects, small mammals (mice, vole, doormouse, shrew), amphibians and soil.
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- English (en)
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- Metadata Date
- 2023-04-27T14:36:54
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
