Radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident

• Main Authors: Beiriger, J.M., Failor, R.A., Marsh, K.V., Shaw, G.E.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ALASKA; FALLOUT; CALIFORNIA; CHERNOBYLSK-4 REACTOR; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; AIR; FISSION PRODUCTS; MILK; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; VEGETABLES; ACCIDENTS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BODY FLUIDS; ECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FEDERAL REGION IX; FEDERAL REGION X; FLUIDS; FOOD; GASES; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; ISOTOPES; LWGR TYPE REACTORS; MATERIALS; NORTH AMERICA; PLANTS; POWER REACTORS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; REACTORS; THERMAL REACTORS; USA; WATER COOLED REACTORS; Fairbanks; Barrow; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6410969; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6410969

Following the accident at the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, in the Soviet Union on April 26, 1986, we performed a variety of measurements to determine the level of the radioactive fallout on the western United States. We used gamma-spectroscopy to analyze air filters from the areas around Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), California, and Barrow and Fairbanks, Alaska. Milk from California and imported vegetables were also analyzed. The levels of the various fission products detected were far below the maximum permissible concentration levels.