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Terrestrial Environmental Dynamics of Radioactive Nuclides

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Radionuclides in the Environment

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Dynamics of radioactive nuclides is the result of highly complex interaction between the radioactive nuclides and the environmental components. In this chapter, the simple outline of these interactions from the influx of radioactive nuclides into the terrestrial environment to the efflux to the next environmental systems is described. As important steps deciding the fate of radioactive nuclide behavior, the following four scenes are selected: deposition of radioactive nuclides from aerosol, its behaviors within soil, its circulation within forest ecosystem, and rediffusion from the system. Deposition of radioactive nuclides is affected by the environmental conditions and the chemical form when those are released and deposited, and those forms also regulate the behavior within the soil. The vegetation of land surface affects the deposition and the behavior of radioactive nuclides. The incorporation of radioactive nuclides into the forest ecosystem means the long retention period around the forest trees and the soil surface. And the rediffusion from the deposited site and system gradually occurs, even in the forest ecosystem. Not only the increase of understandings but the integration of a lot of findings from the measurement and the experiment is needed for the prediction of radioactive nuclide behavior in the environment.

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  1. Center for Research in Isotopes and Environmental Dynamics, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, 305-8577, Japan

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Furukawa, J. (2015). Terrestrial Environmental Dynamics of Radioactive Nuclides. In: Walther, C., Gupta, D. (eds) Radionuclides in the Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22171-7_9

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