RADIOCESIUM CONTAMINATION IN BELGIUM

Authors
POMME S UYTTENHOVE J VANWAEYENBERGE B GENICOT JL CULOT JP HARDEMAN F
Citation
S. Pomme et al., RADIOCESIUM CONTAMINATION IN BELGIUM, Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, 235(1-2), 1998, pp. 139-144
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear","Chemistry Analytical","Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology
Journal title
Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry → ACNP
ISSN journal
02365731
Volume
235
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
139 - 144
Database
ISI
SICI code
0236-5731(1998)235:1-2<139:RCIB>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Radiocesium contamination of air, rain, grass, milk and humans in Belg ium from the late 1950s to present was measured. The main sources of f allout were atmospheric nuclear weapons tests and the Chernobyl accide nt; in Belgium the average impact of the first on the human body burde n was more than six times higher. The geographical distribution of rad iocesium fallout in Belgium was surveyed by means of in-situ gamma-spe ctrometry with HPGe detectors.