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  • Title: Soil-to-plant transfer factors for natural radionuclides and stable elements in a Mediterranean area.
    Author: Vera Tome F, Blanco Rodríguez MP, Lozano JC.
    Journal: J Environ Radioact; 2003; 65(2):161-75. PubMed ID: 12527233.
    Abstract:
    The transfer factors (TF) for natural uranium isotopes (238U and 234U), thorium isotopes (232Th, 230Th and 228Th), and 226Ra were obtained in plant samples (grass-pasture) growing in granitic and alluvial soils around a disused uranium mine located in the Extremadura region in the south-west of Spain. Affected and non-affected areas of the mine presented large differences in the activity concentrations of radionuclides of the uranium series. We also determined transfer factors for several stable elements (essential and non-essential). A set of statistical tests were applied to validate the data. The results showed that the transfer factors for both the natural radionuclides and the stable elements are independent of the two substrate types involved and also of the two areas considered in the study.
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