Wildfires and Radionuclides in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

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By Jorge FRANGANILLO, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, CC BY 2.0, Link


Forest Fires Are Setting Chernobyl’s Radiation Free (Jane Braxton LITTLE, The Atlantic; August 10, 2020)

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/08/chernobyl-fires/615067/


Featured Research Articles:


Resuspension and redistribution of radionuclides during grassland and Forest fires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone:  part I.  Fire experiments (YOSCHENKO et al., 2006)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X05002456

Resuspension and redistribution of radionuclides during grassland and Forest fires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone:  part II.  Modeling the transport process (YOSCHENKO et al., 2006)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265931X05003309


N. B.:  Full texts of the aforementioned articles may be requested directly from the Authors at the ResearchGate links provided below.

YOSCHENKO et al., 2006 (Parts I and II)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7552860_Resuspension_and_redistribution_of_radionuclides_during_grassland_and_forest_fires_in_the_Chernobyl_exclusion_zone_Part_I_Fire_experiments

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7299523_Resuspension_and_redistribution_of_radionuclides_during_grassland_and_forest_fires_in_the_Chernobyl_exclusion_zone_Part_II_Modeling_the_transport_process


Other Selected Research Articles:


Uncovering transport, deposition, and impact of radionuclides released after the early spring 2020 wildfires in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (EVANGELIOU and ECKHARDT, 2020)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67620-3

Methodology for the Ecological Environmental Impact Assessment of the Forest Fire Consequences Under Complex Radiation Conditions of Fire Load (AZAROV et al., 2020)

http://repositsc.nuczu.edu.ua/bitstream/123456789/11076/1/22_26-Azarov_Mashkov_Shevchenko_Shcherbak.pdf

Impact of wildfire on 137Cs and 90Sr wash-off in heavily contaminated forests in the Chernobyl exclusion zone (IGARASHI et al., 2020)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749119349565

The wildfire problem in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster (AGER et al., 2019)

https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_journals/2019/rmrs_2019_ager_a003.pdf


Resuspension and atmospheric transport of radionuclides due to wildfires near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 2015:  An impact assessment (EVANGELIOU et al., 2015)

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep26062

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