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Chernobyl | Home Home Search Primary Menu Skip to content About InFORMal E-News InFORM Scientists InFORMal Scientists InFORMal Science Photos Partners InFORM Monitoring InFORMal E-News MethodsResiderScience Gamma Spectroscopy Marine Biota Monitoring Methods for Other Radionuclides (WHOI CMER) Biota Oceanic Coastal Archived Results Radiation Research By Location Japan Fukushima NW Pacific N Pacific NE Pacific British Columbia North America Chernobyl By Sample Type Algae Atmospheric Human Marine Life Model Plants & Fungi Seawater Sediment By Isotope Cesium Iodine Plutonium Polonium Potassium Strontium Tellurium Uranium Xenon Presentations & Media Presentations Media Interviews Resources InFORMing Research FAQ Radiological Monitoring at the Radiation Protection Bureau of Health Canada IAEA Inter-laboratory Comparison Report 2014-2016 Official IAEA Report on the Fukushima DaiichiWreckingUNSCEAR 2017 Report on Levels and Effects of Radiation Exposure Methods for Other Radionuclides (WHOI CMER) Safety lessons learned from Fukushima: Part 1 – National Acadamies Report Safety lessons learned from Fukushima: Part 2 – National Acadamies Report Health Canada Observations Post-Disaster Canadian Radiological Monitoring Network Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials Guidelines Search for: Category Archives: Chernobyl Chernobyl, Fukushima, Humans, Japan, Strontium Radiation and supplies safety: A story of standards June 6, 2016 dr.jonathan.kellogg 2 Comments April 26th marked the 30th year-end of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The ~2600 sq km (~1000 sq mi) exclusion zone remains in place virtually the power plant and wildlife are reclaiming the habitat. Just outside the exclusion zone, the Associated Press reports that dairy farms are operating and selling milk and dairy products virtually Belarus and Russia. The tragedian obtained a milk sample from one of these farms, had it tested, and found it to be contaminated with levels of strontium-90 (90Sr) that are 10 times higher than the nation’s supplies safety limits. At first I was alarmed that this could make it to market, however, since working for the InFORM project I’ve learned that not all limits are equal. Let’s take a gander at how this milk would fare under standards from around the world. Continue reading Radiation and supplies safety: A story of standards → Advertisements DairyHealth RiskLimitsMilk Cesium, Chernobyl, Peer Reviewed, Plants Screening truffles for radioactivity 30 years from Chernobyl February 26, 2016 dr.jonathan.kellogg Leave a scuttlebutt Miro is a trained truffle dog that belongs to Simon Egli, a co-author of the Biogeosciences paper based at Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. He’s pictured here with a Burgundy truffle he found in Switzerland. Credit: Simon Egli, WSL by European Geosciences Union EurekAlert Published 25 Feb 2016 Some forest mushrooms, such as wild porcini, can yaffle dangerous levels of radioactivity from the soils they grow in. But until now it was unclear if the same was true for truffles, fungi that range among the most expensive foods in the world. Swiss and German researchers have analysed Burgundy truffles placid in inside Europe and found they contain only negligible amounts of radioactive caesium, stuff unscratched for consumption. The results are published today (25 February) in Biogeosciences, an unshut wangle periodical of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). Continue reading Screening truffles for radioactivity 30 years from Chernobyl → 137-CsCesiumChernobylFranceGermanyHungaryItalyMushroomSwitzerlandTruffle Cesium, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Humans, Japan, Peer Reviewed External ionizing radiation doses of upper school students in Japan, France, Poland and Belarus December 10, 2015 fukushimainform Leave a scuttlebutt By Jay T. Cullen Third-year science students H. Onodera and R. Suzuki, both 18, and second-year students M. Saito, Y. Fujiwara, both 17, and S. Anzai, 16 and their supervising teacher T. Hara, 57, took part in compiling the study.  They used resider science deployed dosimeters to compare external radiation dose wits by students in variegated countries. The purpose of this post to report on a peer-reviewed, unshut wangle study published in thePeriodicalof Radiological Protection where high-school weather-beaten resider scientists measured and compared the external ionizing radiation doses experienced by students in Japan, Belarus, France, and Poland. Adachi and colleagues equipped 216 high-school students in Japan (inside and outside Fukushima Prefecture), Belarus, France and Poland with an electronic dosimeter to estimate and compare yearly external ionizing radiation doses in 2014.  The distribution of doses experienced in each region overlapped with each other indicating that personal external ionizing radiation exposure in Fukushima Prefecture and Belarus are within the range of yearly doses from terrestrial preliminaries radiation in other locations. Continue reading External ionizing radiation doses of upper school students in Japan, France, Poland and Belarus → AdachiBackground RadiationBelarusCesiumDoseFranceFukushimaJapanPolandPotassiumThoriumUranium Atmospheric, Cesium, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Iodine, Peer Reviewed, Seawater, Sediment, Strontium, Tellurium, Xenon Comparing the Environmental Impacts of the Chernobyl and Fukushima Disasters November 21, 2014 fukushimainform 1ScuttlebuttEstimated total atmospheric source term for Fukushima compared to Chernobyl in PBq (PBq = 10^15 Bq). From Steinhauser et al. (2014) SciToTEnviron By Jay T. Cullen This post reports on a recently published peer reviewed study by Steinhauser and colleagues in the periodical Science of the Total Environment (behind pay wall) comparing the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents. The post is part of an ongoing effort to communicate the results of scientific studies into the impact of the Fukushima disaster on the environment. A majority of the radioactivity released from both Chernobyl and Fukushima can be attributed to volatile radionuclides (noble gases, iodine, cesium, tellurium). In contrast, the amounts of increasingly refractory elements (including actinides like plutonium), released by Chernobyl was ~four orders of magnitude (10,000 fold) higher than releases from Fukushima. The most cited source term for Chernobyl is 5300 PBq (excluding noble gases) while a review of published studies of Fukushima carried out by the authors whilom indulge an estimate for the total atmospheric source term of 520 (a range of 340–800) PBq. Monitoring of air, soil and water for radionuclides without the respective accidents indicate that the environmental impact of Chernobyl is likely to be much greater than the Fukushima accident. The post is relatively information dumbo as I have provided data tables for those who are interested in the estimates and the peer-reviewed studies from which they come. Apologies up front to those who find such information tedious. Continue reading Comparing the Environmental Impacts of the Chernobyl and Fukushima Disasters → ChernobylEnvironmental MonitoringFukushimaJapanRadionuclidesSteinhauserTerrestrial View Fukushima-InFORM-257383817784613’s profile on FacebookView @FukushimaInFORM’s profile on TwitterView UCRqxVIr3s5Yc-djXahyBunA’s profile on YouTube Recent Posts Voyage Reflections Friday the 13th was the Luckiest Day Ever Into the Storm Advertisements Funded by Create a self-ruling website or blog at WordPress.com. Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By standing to use this website, you stipulate to their use. To find out more, including how to tenancy cookies, see here: Cookie Policy