Re: IUR database

[Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>]

At 22:52 02.03.2000 -0600, you wrote:
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>RADSAFERS,
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>Thank you all who responded on my question regarding soil-to-plant transfer.

I would recommend that you use the latest available information and not any
data given in guidelines etc. long before the Chernobyl accident. The
Chernobyl accident has stimulated research in radioecology and it has
proved that transfer data, which were achieved by using soluble Cs-137
compounds cannot at all be used in the case of a nuclear accident. What is
clear for every chemist, is that the bioavailability is dependend on the
chemical form of the compound - whether it is soluble or it might be in the
form of small particles of nuclear fuel or - as it was the case in
Chernobyl - embedded in graphite particles which are insoluble. 

I do not know the IUR site, but probably you have links to persons involved
in this research. If you do not succeed, please contact me at my e-mail
address and I will search for you e-mail addresses of persons 
who might give you the relevant information. Since I do my e-mails at home
I do not have access right now to my papers.

Franz



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