Lantz, Mattias and Andersson-Sunden, Erik and Andersson, Peter and Barker, Abigail and Gustavsson, Cecilia and Hjalmarsson, Anders and Jacewicz, Marek and Lundén, Karl and Marciniewski, Pawel and Pomp, Stephan and Rathore, Vikram and Ziemann, Volker
(2020).
Gamma spectroscopy methodology for large amounts of environmental samples in Sweden 30 years after the Chernobyl accident.
I/In: International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND), MAY 19-24, 2019, Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA.
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In a Swedish citizen science project, more than 200 elementary school classes participated in collecting fungi, soil samples, and droppings from deer and wild boar, from all over Sweden. The samples have been sent to a laboratory at Uppsala University where they are being analyzed through gamma spectroscopy with a shielded HPGe detector. The main objective is to scan the samples for Cs-137 from the Chernobyl accident and compare the data with measurements from 1986, but uptake of naturally occuring radionuclides like K-40 and radon daughters will also be determined. Together with the soil samples, transfer factors will be derived, and correlations for these factors will be sought for different species of fungi and soil types. The potential for correlating the results with different biological processes will also be investigated, in part through the collected animal droppings. This is a work in progress where the present status of the experimental setup and methodology are presented. Issues with the initial approach for corrections are discussed and preliminary results are presented.
| Authors/Creators: | Lantz, Mattias and Andersson-Sunden, Erik and Andersson, Peter and Barker, Abigail and Gustavsson, Cecilia and Hjalmarsson, Anders and Jacewicz, Marek and Lundén, Karl and Marciniewski, Pawel and Pomp, Stephan and Rathore, Vikram and Ziemann, Volker | ||||||
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| Title: | Gamma spectroscopy methodology for large amounts of environmental samples in Sweden 30 years after the Chernobyl accident | ||||||
| Year of publishing : | 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 239 | ||||||
| Article number: | 25002 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 4 | ||||||
| Publisher: | EDP Sciences | ||||||
| ISBN for electronic version: | 978-2-7598-9106-1 | ||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||
| Publication Type: | Conference Paper (UNSPECIFIED) | ||||||
| Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
| Version: | Published version | ||||||
| Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
| Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
| Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 105 Earth and Related Environmental Sciences > Environmental Sciences (social aspects to be 507) | ||||||
| URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-111773 | ||||||
| Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-111773 | ||||||
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| ID Code: | 23689 | ||||||
| Faculty: | S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||||
| Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology (S) > Dept. of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology | ||||||
| Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
| Deposited On: | 17 May 2021 06:45 | ||||||
| Metadata Last Modified: | 21 May 2021 13:29 |
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