Journal
HEALTH PHYSICS
Volume 84, Issue 5, Pages 637-641Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200305000-00010
Keywords
accidents, nuclear; (CS)-C-137; contamination, environmental; food chain
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Greenhouse experiments were carried out to evaluate the effect of different soil-based countermeasures on radiocesium transfer to Medicago sativa (alfalfa) grown on artificially contaminated loamy-clayey soil. Various rates of potassium, ammonium, and Prussian Blue supplements were applied, and the uptake of radiocesium by control and treated alfalfa plants was monitored during four growth periods., Transfer factors ranging between 0.06 and 0.02 were determined for control plants. Application of potassium at rates higher-than 0.1 meq per 100 g soil was found to suppress radiocesium uptake, the effect being more. pronounced at increasing fertilization rates. On the contrary, soil treatment with ammonium enhanced the bio-accumulation of radiocesium, indicating that Cs+ ions, previously unavailable to plant roots, were released from soil particles. Prussian Blue supplements had practically no effect on soil-to-alfalfa transfer of the radionuclide.
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