This review article introduces an experimental site located within the Chernobyl exclusion
zone that is equipped to study radionuclide behavior in the environment after disposal of …

Increasing use of wood fuels for energy production in Finland since the 1990s implies that
large quantities of the generated ashes will be available for forest fertilization. The aim of this …

In the present work, moss samples collected in Slovakia and Belarus were assayed with
respect to gamma-emitting radionuclides. The results for 137Cs and 210Pb are discussed …

TheRed Forestradioactive waste burials created during emergency clean-up activities at
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant represent a serious source of radioactive contamination of …

[en] Between 1987 and 1989, as part of the programme of the Soviet Academy of Sciences,
we studied the effect of the radioactive releases from the damaged Chernobyl reactor on …

The 9-years dynamic of Chernobyl-derived radionuclides in the vegetation and soil covers of
the forest ecosystems of the European part of the CIS is considered. The quantitative …

In this paper, we analyze the current and future status of forests in Ukraine and Belarus that
were contaminated after the nuclear disaster in 1986. Using several models, together with …

Tree ring series were collected from the vicinity of a Hungarian radioactive waste treatment
and disposal facility and from a distant control background site, which is not influenced by …

During the years 2007 and 2010, the activity concentration of 137 Cs accumulated in soil,
mosses Pleurozium schreberi and lichens Hypogymnia physodes was measured. The …

More than 20 experimental sites in different directions out from the Chernobyl nuclear power
plant in the Ukrainian territory were established as a network to study the migration of …