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Potential of Soils Natural Sorbents for Environmental Decontamination From 137Cs
Land Degradation &Development, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 779-789, 30 January 2026.ABSTRACT This study addresses the existing research gap concerning the lack of integrated data on the role of in situ soil components in the long‐term fixation of 137Cs under natural, protected, and non‐agricultural conditions. The contamination of ecosystems by radioactive isotopes, particularly 137Cs, represents a considerable environmental hazard ...
Katarzyna Szarłowicz +3 more
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REVIEW: Exposing the US nuclear test legacy in the Marshall Islands
Pacific Journalism Review, 2006 The world's worst nuclear reactor accident occurred in late April 1986 at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people and millions of square miles of land were contaminated by radioactive fallout spewed from the reactor meltdown.
Giff Johnson
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Left High and Dry: Deep Soil Water Depletion and Ecohydrological Resilience on China's Loess Plateau
WIREs Water, Volume 13, Issue 1, January/February 2026.Deep‐rooted vegetation on China's Loess Plateau taps decades‐old “legacy” water stored in the deep vadose zone. The schematic illustrates how rooting depth controls access to shallow versus deep soil moisture, the role of preferential flow in rare deep‐recharge events, and the progressive depletion of deep soil water as afforested stands age. The inset
Jaivime Evaristo
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract Southwestern Pennsylvania (SWPA) has long been an energy extractive periphery, continuously remade through cycles of dispossession and accumulation. Here we examine the changing dynamics of private property in these cycles and its central role in the latest phase of extraction—unconventional oil and gas development (UOGD).
Owen Harrington, Jennifer Baka
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Journal of Wood Science, 2021 The transfer factor (TF) of radioactive cesium-137 (137Cs) to shiitake (Lentinula edodes) cultivated on bed logs varies greatly. Therefore, the present study investigated which factors affect the TF using stable cesium-133 (133Cs) and sawdust medium with
Masakazu Hiraide
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Respatializing Toxic Harm: The Case Against Sacrifice Zones
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT Describing heavily polluted areas as “sacrifice zones” has become commonplace in recent decades, as diverse groups resist their unwitting exposure to destructive and toxic industrial, municipal, and military activities. However, pollutants tend to seep, spill, leak, and drift from wherever they are concentrated, defying any notion of physical ...
Kimberley Anh Thomas +2 more
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MedComm, Volume 6, Issue 12, December 2025.Radiation‐induced biological effects are an extremely complex and extensive mechanism that involves multiple aspects of physiological activities in organisms. In the medical field, utilizing the damaging effects of radiation to treat tumors is a commonly employed therapeutic approach.
Zhihe Hu +5 more
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Trace americium contamination sources in the environment can be detected using 243Am/241Am
Communications Earth & EnvironmentDespite the widespread presence of americium in the environment since the 1950s from nuclear activities, the use of americium isotopic composition to trace contamination sources has not been investigated.
Elena Chamizo +2 more
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Actinides, accelerators and erosion
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2012 Fallout isotopes can be used as artificial tracers of soil erosion and sediment accumulation. The most commonly used isotope to date has been 137Cs. Concentrations of 137Cs are, however, significantly lower in the Southern Hemisphere, and furthermore ...
Fifield L.K., Tims S.G.
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Effectiveness of landscape decontamination following the Fukushima nuclear accident: a review [PDF]
SOIL, 2019 The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident in March 2011 resulted in the contamination of Japanese landscapes with radioactive fallout.
O. Evrard, J. P. Laceby, A. Nakao
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