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Acid extraction as a predictive tool of Radiocaesium Interception Potential (RIP) in a worldwide scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2009

J. Barescut ,
L. Vandebroek ,
M. Van Hees ,
B. Delvaux ,
O. Spaargaren  and
Y. Thiry
L. Vandebroek
Affiliation:
Unité des Sciences du Sol, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Biosphere Impact Studies, The Belgian Nuclear Research Center, 2400 Mol, Belgium
M. Van Hees
Affiliation:
Biosphere Impact Studies, The Belgian Nuclear Research Center, 2400 Mol, Belgium
B. Delvaux
Affiliation:
Unité des Sciences du Sol, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
O. Spaargaren
Affiliation:
International Soil Reference and Information Center, 6701 AR Wageningen, The Netherlands
Y. Thiry
Affiliation:
Biosphere Impact Studies, The Belgian Nuclear Research Center, 2400 Mol, Belgium
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Abstract

The extent of radiocaesium in soil is very important to appreciate the risk of its recycling by the vegetation and thus the risk of food chain contamination. An intrinsic soil parameter, the radiocaesium interception potential (RIP), could be used to measure this retention. In this study, we tested the possibility to predict the RIP starting from a simple acid extraction in widely different soils coming from the whole world and pertaining to various soil reference groups of the WRB/FAO world soil classification. Our results show that a simple acid extraction could be used as an operational test to estimate the RIP whatever the soil type.

Type
Research Article
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Radioprotection , Volume 44 , Issue 5: ECORAD 2008 - Radioecology and Environmental Radioactivity , 2009 , pp. 635 - 638
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© EDP Sciences, 2009

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