Man-made plutonium radioisotopes in the salt lakes of the Crimean peninsula

作     者：TERESHCHENKO Nataliya N PROSKURNIN Vladislav Yu PARASKIV Artem A. CHUZHIKOVA-PROSKURNINA Olga D. 

作者机构：The A.O.Kovalevsky Institute of Marine Biological Research of the Russian Academy of SciencesSevastopol 299011Russian Federation 

出 版 物：《Journal of Oceanology and Limnology》 (海洋湖沼学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2018年第36卷第6期

页      面：1917-1929页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 0908[农学-水产] 0707[理学-海洋科学] 0815[工学-水利工程] 

基　　金：supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Grant No.16-05-00134 

主　　题：plutonium radioisotopes 238,239+240 Pu bottom sediments global fallout Chernobyl accident Crimean salt lakes 

摘      要：Investigations of ^(239+240)Pu and ^(238)Pu in the surface layer(0–5 cm) of bottom sediment in the Crimean 10 salt lakes from 4 geographical groups were carried out for the first time. The ^(239+240)Pu varied widely between regional geographical groups of lakes as well as within groups too and ranged from 11±4 to 451±43 mBq^(239+240)Pu/kg. The highest levels of ^(239+240)Pu—419±27, 443±24 and 451±43 mBq/kg were observed in the Yevpatoriya(Lake Kyzyl-Yar), the Tarkhankut(Dzharylhach) and the Kerch group(Tobechik), respectively. The lowest values of ^(239+240)Pu were identified in three lakes of the Perekop group and were 20±12, 24±6 and 48±6 mBq/kg. In all lakes ^(238)Pu was an order of magnitude lower than 239+240 Pu and varied from 4.8±2.6 to 30.7±5.5 mBq/kg. The ^(238)Pu activity was decay-corrected to 1986. The characteristic ratio of the ^(238)Pu/239+240 Pu activities in the sediment and percentage of the Chernobyl-derived Pu was calculated. The largest percentages of the Chernobyl-derived Pu were observed in the Evpatoriya group(Lake SasykSivash)—16.2%±8.26%, the Tarkhankut group(Dzharylhach)—8.4%±2.10% and the Kerch group(Aktash)—10.5%±5.56%. The study of the depth distribution of plutonium in the Lake Kyzyl-Yar bottom sediment core(0–25 cm) was fulfilled. It was shown that 239+240 Pu was high enough in all studied layers of bottom sediment, but the highest activity ratio ^(238)Pu/239+240 Pu(0.062±0.020) was found in the deepest layer of 15–20.5 cm and the percentage of Chernobyl-derived Pu was estimated at 6.8%±2.85% in this layer.