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Releases of radioactive substances to the environment have in principle always occurred. Erosion of land, run-off with rivers and volcanic eruption have thus always contaminated the geo-hydro-sphere with natural occurring radionuclides. In the present context we shall, however, deal with man-made (anthropogenic) radionuclides only.
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Aarkrog, A. (1996). Inventory of Nuclear Releases in the World. In: Luykx, F.F., Frissel, M.J. (eds) Radioecology and the Restoration of Radioactive-Contaminated Sites. NATO ASI Series, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0301-2_3
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