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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156755 | DOI Listing |
J Hazard Mater
August 2025
Radiochemistry Unit, Department of Chemistry, The University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00560, Finland. Electronic address:
Uranium dioxide (UO) particles can be released from mines, nuclear fuel manufacturing, reactor accidents, and weapons use. They pose inhalation risks, yet their behavior in the human lung remains poorly understood. This study investigates the long-term chemical alteration and dissolution of µm-sized UO particles in two model lung fluids: Simulated Lung Fluid (SLF) and Artificial Lysosomal Fluid (ALF), representing extracellular and intracellular lung environments, respectively.
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September 2025
Institute of Radiation Emergency Medicine, Hirosaki University, 66-1 Hon-cho, Aomori, 036-8564, Japan.
The radiological accidents that occurred at the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants resulted in the release of a substantial amount of radioactive material into the environment, requiring evacuation of residents. Evacuations caused involuntary abandonment of many pets, and both feral dogs and cats can still be found in exclusion zones of Chernobyl and Fukushima, likely offspring of pets left behind. Animal welfare groups have provided care for these forsaken animals, oftentimes rescuing them and subsequently facilitating their adoption, or in some cases reuniting them with their original owners.
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August 2025
Medical Radiation Physics Malmö, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University Skåne University Hospital Malmö, SUS Malmö, Inga Maria Nilssons gata 47, SE-205 02 Malmö, Sweden.
Carbon-14 often dominates the effective dose to the public from authorized discharges from Swedish nuclear power plants (NPPs). In contrast to air-borne releases, water-borne discharges of 14C are currently not routinely monitored at Swedish NPPs. We have measured 14C in Fucus spp.
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August 2025
Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA), Universidad de Sevilla, Junta de Andalucía, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Thomas Alva Edison 7, Sevilla ES-41092, Spain.
Samples of Fucus serratus and Fucus vesiculosus have been regularly collected at Särdal (56.76 N, 12.63E) on the Swedish west coast since 1967, for most of the time, every two months.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFor the calculation of fractional deposition of radioactive aerosols, the deposition model in ICRP Publication 130 has been widely used. However, the deposition model is based on the anatomical and physiological characteristics of Caucasians. Since physiology and anatomical parameters of Chinese differ from those of Caucasians, this difference can affect the applicability of depositional models to Chinese people.
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