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After the Chernobyl accident large areas of forests in Ukraine received a significant fallout of radionuclides. During the next 50-70 years the most significant problem for the general population of Ukraine is that of 137Cs (see Table 1 for 137Cs data). Despite the fact that the soil’s contamination levels in the western part of Ukrainian Polesye (the Volyn’ and Rivne Regions) are relatively low, the problem of forest component of the total dose from internal exposure is of main concern, mainly because of the soil’s and climatic conditions resulting in persistent high levels of 137Cs in food products in contaminated areas of those Regions [1–4].
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Giriy, V. et al. (1999). Contribution of Forest Ecosystem to Dose Formation For Inhabitants of the Ukrainian Polesye. In: Linkov, I., Schell, W.R. (eds) Contaminated Forests. NATO Science Series, vol 58. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4694-4_34
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