Journal
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY
Volume 100, Issue 11, Pages 988-992Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2009.06.023
Keywords
Wild boar; Cs-137; Time-dependency
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- Landesanstalt fur Umwelt
- Messungen und Naturschutz Baden-Wurttemberg (LUBW)
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Following the Chernobyl accident, (CS)-C-137 contamination levels of wild boar in some districts of Southern Germany are still exceeding thousands of Bq kg(-1). While the long term Cs-137 concentration in forest plants, mushrooms, and roe deer meat has decreased significantly, for wild boar it has remained constant during the last decade. Between 1998 and 2008, we analysed the muscle meat of 656 wild boars shot in the district (Landkreis) Ravensburg. The (CS)-C-137 activity concentration showed considerable variability from less than 5 up to 8266 Bq kg(-1) and it followed a seasonal pattern. which is attributed to changes in dietary habits, fodder availability, meteorological conditions and specific behaviour of Cs-137 in wild boar organism. T-ag values for wild boars from the district Ravensburg varied from 0.008 to 0.062 m(2) kg(-1) during 2000-2008. (c) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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