Modelling of long-term behaviour of caesium and strontium radionuclides in the Arctic environment and human exposure

• Published in: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
• Main Authors: Golikov, Vladislav, Logacheva, Irina, Bruk, Gennadi, Shutov, Vladimir, Balonov, Mikhail, Strand, Per, Borghuis, Sander, Howard, Brenda, Wright, Simon M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Ecology and Environment; Arctic; Kola Peninsula; Norway; Kautokeino; kola peninsula; nenets
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17729/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X04000207

In this paper a compartment model of the highly vulnerable Arctic terrestrial food chain ‘‘lichen–reindeer–man’’ is outlined. Based upon an analysis of measured 137Csand 90Sr contents in lichen and reindeer meat from 1961 up to 2001, site specific model parameters for two regions in north-western Ar...