Journal article
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATIONS NEAR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Health physics (1958), v 108(5), pp 503-513
01 May 2015
PMID: 25811148
Abstract
The areas in and along a 262-km length of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania were monitored for the presence of radioactive materials. This study began two months after the 1979 Three Mile Island (TMI) partial reactor meltdown; it spanned the next 25 y. Monitoring points included stations at the PPL Susquehanna and TMI nuclear power plants. Monthly gamma measurements document concentrations of radionuclides from natural and anthropogenic sources. During this study, various series of gamma-emitting radionuclide concentration measurements were made in many general categories of animals, plants, and other inorganic matter. Sampling began in 1979 before the first start-up of the PPL Susquehanna power plant. Although all species were not continuously monitored for the entire period, an extensive database was compiled. In 1986, the ongoing measurements detected fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. These data may be used in support of dose or environmental transport calculations.
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- Title
- TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATIONS NEAR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
- Creators
- Charles Harris - Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel UniversityDanielle Kreeger - Tioga County Partnership for Community HealthRuth Patrick - Drexel Univ, Acad Nat Sci, Patrick Ctr Environm Res, Philadelphia, PA 19103 USAJohn Palms - Univ S Carolina, Off President, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
- Publication Details
- Health physics (1958), v 108(5), pp 503-513
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- PPL Corporation, Allentown, PA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science (BEES)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000351887900003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84926632264
- Other Identifier
- 991019168161504721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Environmental Sciences
- Nuclear Science & Technology
- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging