RADIATION SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF CARROT AND BEET PRODUCTS CULTIVATED IN THE BLACK EARTH ZONE OF RUSSIA IN THE OREOL OF THE EASTERN CHERNOBYL TRACE

On the territory of the Plavsky radioactive hotspot of the Tula region of Russia, formed as a result of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, an assessment of the radiation safety of growing carrots and beets was carried out in 2019. It has been established that at present the content of ¹³⁷Cs in arable leached chernozems of the surveyed lands is 90–170 kBq/m² , which is 2.5–4.5 times higher than the permissible level of density of surface radioactive contamination of soils. However, the specific activity of the radionuclide in carrot and beetroot crops does not exceed 5 Bq/kg, which is significantly less than the maximum permissible level of ¹³⁷Cs accumulation in vegetables (600 Bq/kg for absolutely dry weight). The accumulation coefficients of ¹³⁷Cs in the total biomass of carrots and beets are 2.0·10⁻² and 7.5·10⁻², and in eaten root crops – 1.1·10⁻² and 2.0·10⁻², respectively, which is in good agreement with the IAEA estimate for the intensity of the transition ¹³⁷Cs in the production of vegetable roots from loamy and clayey soils.

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