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Estimated effects of radioactive fallout on agricultural production in Sweden. Contamination of crop products; Beraeknade effekter av radioaktivt nedfall paa jordbruksproduktionen i Sverige. II. Jordbruksgroedornas foerorening

Abstract

The study is part of a research project, `Radioactivity problems within the food sector` performed in 1991-94 at the request of the National Board of Agriculture in Sweden by The National Research Establishment, Dept. of NBC Defence, and the Dept. of Radioecology and the Dept. of Biosystems and Technology, the latter two belonging to the Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences. The aim of the study was to investigate the contamination levels that may occur in agricultural crop products in Sweden in a situation of radioactive fallout from the use of nuclear weapons. There is a risk for a major nuclide transport in agricultural systems by the feeds, mainly by pasture grass and silage and hay crops but also to some extent by grain crops. For that reason, cattle are expected to be important vectors of the fallout nuclides to the human diet, particularly in milk from dairy cattle but also in beef. The activity transport by grain to pig products may also be of some importance. 8 refs, 7 figs, 25 tabs.
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1994
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
SLU-REK-R-73
Reference Number:
SCA: 560162; PA: AIX-26:010473; EDB-95:031790; SN: 95001323757
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1994
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; CROPS; CONTAMINATION; FALLOUT DEPOSITS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; RADIOECOLOGY; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SWEDEN; 560162; ANIMALS, PLANTS, MICROORGANISMS, AND CELLS
OSTI ID:
10111327
Research Organizations:
Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala (Sweden). Dept. of Radioecology
Country of Origin:
Sweden
Language:
Swedish
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: ISSN 0280-7963; Other: ON: DE95612522; TRN: SE9400195010473
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS; INIS
Submitting Site:
SWDN
Size:
76 p.
Announcement Date:
Jun 30, 2005

Citation Formats

Eriksson, Aake, Loensjoe, H, and Karlstroem, F. Estimated effects of radioactive fallout on agricultural production in Sweden. Contamination of crop products; Beraeknade effekter av radioaktivt nedfall paa jordbruksproduktionen i Sverige. II. Jordbruksgroedornas foerorening. Sweden: N. p., 1994. Web.
Eriksson, Aake, Loensjoe, H, & Karlstroem, F. Estimated effects of radioactive fallout on agricultural production in Sweden. Contamination of crop products; Beraeknade effekter av radioaktivt nedfall paa jordbruksproduktionen i Sverige. II. Jordbruksgroedornas foerorening. Sweden.
Eriksson, Aake, Loensjoe, H, and Karlstroem, F. 1994. "Estimated effects of radioactive fallout on agricultural production in Sweden. Contamination of crop products; Beraeknade effekter av radioaktivt nedfall paa jordbruksproduktionen i Sverige. II. Jordbruksgroedornas foerorening." Sweden.
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title = {Estimated effects of radioactive fallout on agricultural production in Sweden. Contamination of crop products; Beraeknade effekter av radioaktivt nedfall paa jordbruksproduktionen i Sverige. II. Jordbruksgroedornas foerorening}
author = {Eriksson, Aake, Loensjoe, H, and Karlstroem, F}
abstractNote = {The study is part of a research project, `Radioactivity problems within the food sector` performed in 1991-94 at the request of the National Board of Agriculture in Sweden by The National Research Establishment, Dept. of NBC Defence, and the Dept. of Radioecology and the Dept. of Biosystems and Technology, the latter two belonging to the Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences. The aim of the study was to investigate the contamination levels that may occur in agricultural crop products in Sweden in a situation of radioactive fallout from the use of nuclear weapons. There is a risk for a major nuclide transport in agricultural systems by the feeds, mainly by pasture grass and silage and hay crops but also to some extent by grain crops. For that reason, cattle are expected to be important vectors of the fallout nuclides to the human diet, particularly in milk from dairy cattle but also in beef. The activity transport by grain to pig products may also be of some importance. 8 refs, 7 figs, 25 tabs.}
place = {Sweden}
year = {1994}
month = {Dec}
}