On release of radionuclides from a near-surface radioactive waste repository to the environment

Arūnas Gudelis; Inga Gorina

doi:10.1515/nuka-2015-0091

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On release of radionuclides from a near-surface radioactive waste repository to the environment

Nukleonika

Volume 60 (2015): Issue 3 (September 2015)

By: Arūnas Gudelis and Inga Gorina

Open Access

|Sep 2015

Abstract

A closed near-surface radioactive waste repository is the source of various radionuclides causing the human exposure. Recent investigations confirm an effectiveness of the engineering barriers installed in 2006 to prevent the penetration of radionuclides to the environment. The tritium activity concentration in groundwater decreased from tens of kBq/l to below hundreds of Bq/l. The monitoring and groundwater level data suggest the leaching of tritium from previously contaminated layers of unsaturated zone by rising groundwater while ²¹⁰Pb may disperse as a decay product of ²²⁶Ra daughters.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nuka-2015-0091 | Journal eISSN: 1508-5791 | Journal ISSN: 0029-5922

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Language: English

Page range: 551 - 555

Submitted on: Sep 29, 2014

Accepted on: May 20, 2015

Published on: Sep 25, 2015

Published by: Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

near-surface repository · radionuclides · groundwater · radionuclide release · forest environment

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Chemistry,

Nuclear chemistry,

Physics,

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