Radionuclides and mercury in the salt lakes of the Crimea

Natalya Mirzoyeva; Larisa Gulina; Sergey Gulin; Olga Plotitsina; Alexandra Stetsuk; Svetlana Arkhipova; Nina Korkishko; Oleg Eremin

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Radionuclides and mercury in the salt lakes of the Crimea

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- Radionuclides and mercury in the salt lakes of the Crimea
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 33, Issue 6, Pages: 1413-1425(2015)
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  Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (IBSS) Sevastopol
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-015-4374-5
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Mirzoyeva, N., Gulina, L., Gulin, S. et al. Radionuclides and mercury in the salt lakes of the Crimea., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 33, 1413–1425 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-015-4374-5
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Mirzoyeva, N., Gulina, L., Gulin, S. et al. Radionuclides and mercury in the salt lakes of the Crimea., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 33, 1413–1425 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-015-4374-5 DOI：

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Abstract

90Sr concentrations

resulting from the Chernobyl NPP accident

were determined in the salt lakes of the Crimea (Lakes Kiyatskoe

Kirleutskoe

Kizil-Yar

Bakalskoe and Donuzlav)

together with the redistribution between the components of the ecosystems. The content of mercury in the waters of the studied reservoirs was also established. Vertical distributions of natural radionuclide activities (238U

232Th

226Ra

210Pb

40K) and anthropogenic 137Cs concentrations (as radiotracers) were determined in the bottom sediments of the Koyashskoe salt lake (located in the south-eastern Crimea) to evaluate the longterm dynamics and biogeochemical processes. Radiochemical and chemical analysis was undertaken and radiotracer and statistical methods were applied to the analytical data. The highest concentrations of 90Sr in the water of Lake Kiyatskoe (350.5 and 98.0 Bq/m3) and Lake Kirleutskoe (121.3 Bq/m3) were due to the discharge of the Dnieper water from the North-Crimean Canal. The high content of mercury in Lake Kiyatskoe (363.2 ng/L) and in seawater near Lake Kizil-Yar (364 ng/L) exceeded the maximum permissible concentration (3.5 times the maximum). Natural radionuclides provide the main contribution to the total radioactivity (artificial and natural combined) in the bottom sediments of Lake Koyashskoe. The significant concentration of 210Pb in the upper layer of bottom sediments of the lake indicates an active inflow of its parent radionuclide—gaseous 222Rn from the lower layers of the bottom sediment. The average sedimentation rates in Lake Koyashskoe

determined using 210Pb and 137Cs data

were 0.117 and 0.109 cm per year

respectively.

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