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Adsorption and Biocirculation in Oceanic Waters; Adsorption et Biocirculation dans les Eaux des Oceans

Abstract

It is generally known that in recent years oceanographers in all countries have denoted great attention to studying the dispersion routes and speed of movement of radioactive decay products in oceanic waters. At the same time the form, degree and extent of contamination of oceanic waters by fission products has been investigated. It is clear that scientists are becoming more and more interested in living organisms as a factor responsible for the transport and distribution of radioactive substances in water. B. Ketchum and Y. Bowen discuss the concept of 'biological transport' and make an interesting attempt to define it in mathematical terms and to collate it with research on 'physical transport'. The term 'biocirculation' has come into use. It is evident that this factor cannot be left out of account as a means of transport or system of adsorption. The great volume of suspension formed of mineral substances and not containing living organisms is characterized by its relatively low mobility, and the bacterial and phytoplankton bodies constitute a vast adsorption surface (Tables 1 and 2). The ocean water column contains a vast quantity of matter in suspension, including living organisms (bacteria, phytoplankton and zooplankton) and components not containing living organisms  More>>
Authors:
Publication Date:
Jul 01, 1960
Product Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: Scientific Conference on the Disposal of Radioactive Wastes, Monaco (Monaco), 16-21 Nov 1959; Other Information: 2 tabs.; Related Information: In: Disposal of Radioactive Wastes. Vol. II. Proceedings of the Scientific Conference on the Disposal of Radioactive Wastes| 586 p.
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ADSORPTION; BACTERIA; FISSION PRODUCTS; HABITAT; NUCLEAR DECAY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIOECOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION; RADIOECOLOGY; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SEAS; SUSPENSIONS; WATER; ZOOPLANKTON
OSTI ID:
22192409
Research Organizations:
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria); United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris (France); Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome (Italy)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
French
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ISSN 0074-1884; TRN: XA13M3533016898
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 100-101
Announcement Date:
Feb 20, 2014

Citation Formats

Zenkevich, L. A. Adsorption and Biocirculation in Oceanic Waters; Adsorption et Biocirculation dans les Eaux des Oceans. IAEA: N. p., 1960. Web.
Zenkevich, L. A. Adsorption and Biocirculation in Oceanic Waters; Adsorption et Biocirculation dans les Eaux des Oceans. IAEA.
Zenkevich, L. A. 1960. "Adsorption and Biocirculation in Oceanic Waters; Adsorption et Biocirculation dans les Eaux des Oceans." IAEA.
@misc{etde_22192409,
title = {Adsorption and Biocirculation in Oceanic Waters; Adsorption et Biocirculation dans les Eaux des Oceans}
author = {Zenkevich, L. A.}
abstractNote = {It is generally known that in recent years oceanographers in all countries have denoted great attention to studying the dispersion routes and speed of movement of radioactive decay products in oceanic waters. At the same time the form, degree and extent of contamination of oceanic waters by fission products has been investigated. It is clear that scientists are becoming more and more interested in living organisms as a factor responsible for the transport and distribution of radioactive substances in water. B. Ketchum and Y. Bowen discuss the concept of 'biological transport' and make an interesting attempt to define it in mathematical terms and to collate it with research on 'physical transport'. The term 'biocirculation' has come into use. It is evident that this factor cannot be left out of account as a means of transport or system of adsorption. The great volume of suspension formed of mineral substances and not containing living organisms is characterized by its relatively low mobility, and the bacterial and phytoplankton bodies constitute a vast adsorption surface (Tables 1 and 2). The ocean water column contains a vast quantity of matter in suspension, including living organisms (bacteria, phytoplankton and zooplankton) and components not containing living organisms (bioseston and abioseston). Quantitative determination of all the seston enables its role as an adsorption surface and as a mechanism of vertical and horizontal biocirculation to be evaluated. The adsorption surface for various seston groups in average density distribution zones, and the index of subsurface biocirculation in a water column less than 1 m{sup 2} in the habitat are given [French] On sait que depuis quelques annees les oceanologues de tous les pays etudient avec beaucoup d'attention les modes de diffusion et la mobilite des produits de la desintegration radioactive a l'interieur des masses d'eau oceaniques. En meme temps, on fait des recherches sur la forme, le taux et l'etendue de la contamination des oceans par des produits radioactifs. De toute evidence, les hommes de science se preoccupent de plus en plus du role des organismes vivants sur le transport et la diffusion des substances radioactives dans toutes les niasses d'eau. MM. Ketchum et Bowen etudient ce qu'ils appellent le 'transport biologique' et s'efforcent, dans des travaux d'un grand interet, de donner une expression numerique a ce transport et de le comparer au 'transport physique'. Une notion nouvelle est apparue, celle de 'biocirculation'. On ne saurait, de toute evidence, negliger l'importance de ce facteur, tant du point de vue du transport que de celui de 1-adsorption. La masse des substances minerales en suspension dans l'eau (substances ne contenant aucun organisme vivant), qui sont caracterisees par une mobilite relativement faible, ainsi que les bacteries, le phytoplancton et le zooplancton creent une enorme surface d'adsorption (tableaux 1 et 2): Les masses d'eau oceaniques contiennent en effet une grande quantite de ces elements inertes et organismes planctoniques, animaux et vegetaux. La determination quantitative de tous les elements en suspension permet d'apprecier le role qu'ils jouent en tant que surface d'adsorption et moyen de biocirculation (dans le sens vertical et dans le sens horizontal). Les tableaux ci-apres indiquent la surface d'adsorption des differents groupes planctoniques dans les zones de diffusion de densite moyenne et la biocirculation au sein d'une colonne de 1 m{sup 2} dans ces zones.}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1960}
month = {Jul}
}