Assessment of the Fate of Radioactive Contaminants in the Ob River, Siberia, Russia

This project has studied the distribution of particle reactive natural and artificial radionuclides in sediment cores of the Ob River, Siberia in order to determine the release and transport of nuclides from nuclear weapons related activities of the former Soviet Union. The Ob River drainage basin h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sayles, Frederick L.
Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1999
Subjects:
Radiation Pollution and Control
*RIVERS
*SEDIMENTS
*RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
NUCLEAR RADIATION
TRANSPORT
CONTAMINANTS
RUSSIA
RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION
NUCLIDES
SIBERIA
ARCTIC OCEAN
OB RIVER(SIBERIA)
RADIOACTIVE
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
ob river
Siberia
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA365109
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA365109
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Summary:This project has studied the distribution of particle reactive natural and artificial radionuclides in sediment cores of the Ob River, Siberia in order to determine the release and transport of nuclides from nuclear weapons related activities of the former Soviet Union. The Ob River drainage basin houses the bulk of the former Soviet Union's weapons production facilities (Mayak and Tomsk-7) as well as the major test site of Semipalatinsk. In addition, some 2 billion curries of nuclear waste from weapons production are stored or have been released to the environment in this area. The potential for catastrophic future releases from poorly maintained tanks and open storage ponds is real. This project has sought to develop a history of transport and deposition of nuclides released from these plants, and to use these data as a basis for estimating delivery to the Arctic Ocean and to predict rates of transport in the event of future releases.

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