An extended critical review of twenty years of countermeasures used in agriculture after the Chernobyl accident

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 383, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 1-24

  Fesenko, Sergey V ^a   Alexakhin, Rudolf M ^b   Balonov, Mikhail I ^a   Bogdevitch, Iossif M ^c   Howard, Brenda J ^d   Kashparov, Valery A ^e   Sanzharova, Natalia I ^b   Panov, Alexey V ^b   Voigt, Gabriele ^a   Zhuchenka, Yury M ^f  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY AND AGROECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry   (Belarus)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^f Research Institute of Radiology   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Chernobyl NPP; Consequences; Countermeasures; Remediation

Indexed keywords

CHERNOBYL NPP; COLLECTIVE DOSES; CONSEQUENCES; COUNTERMEASURES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BIOREMEDIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; RUSSIA; URBAN PLANNING;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING;

RADIOISOTOPE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; MITIGATION; POLLUTION EFFECT; REMEDIATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL PRODUCT; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CROP; DECISION MAKING; FOOD PROCESSING; LAND USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; REVIEW; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; UKRAINE;

AGRICULTURE; BYELARUS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; DECISION MAKING; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; HUMANS; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RUSSIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; UKRAINE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE; POLLUTION;

BELARUS; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE;

EID: 34447256927     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.05.011     Document Type: Review

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