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Anthropogenic actinides in seawater and biota from the west coast of Sweden
Univ Seville, Spain.
Univ Seville, Spain.
Linköping University, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Division of Diagnostics and Specialist Medicine. Linköping University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9989-1883
2024 (English)In: Environmental Pollution, ISSN 0269-7491, E-ISSN 1873-6424, Vol. 363, article id 125289Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The assessment of the origin of the anthropogenic contamination in marine regions impacted by other sources than global fallout is a challenge. This is the case of the west coast of Sweden, influenced by the liquid effluents released by the European Nuclear Reprocessing Plants through North Sea currents and by Baltic Sea local and regional sources, among others. This work focused on the study of anthropogenic actinides (236U, 237 Np and 239,240Pu) in seawater and biota from a region close to Gothenburg where radioactive wastes with an unknown composition were dumped in 1964. To this aim, a radiochemical procedure for the sequential extraction of U, Np and Pu from biota samples and the subsequent analysis of 236 U, 237 Np, 239 Pu and 240 Pu by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry was developed. The method was validated through the study of two reference materials provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): IAEA-446 (Baltic Sea seaweed) and IAEA-437 (Mediterranean Sea mussels). The 233U/236U atom ratio was also studied in the seawater samples. The obtained results indicate that the North Sea currents and global fallout are the major sources for 236 U, 237 Np and 239,240Pu to the studied area, without clear evidence of other local sources. Complementary, information on the Concentrations Factors (CF) in biota was obtained, for which the available information is very scarce. For seaweed, CF values of (4.07 +/- 0.90).103, 61 +/- 22 and 76 +/- 16 have been obtained for Pu, Np and U, respectively. Lower CF values of (3.37 +/- 0.78).102, 34 +/- 10 and 15.9 +/- 3.4 for Pu, Np and U, respectively, have been obtained for mussels.

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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-210131DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.125289ISI: 001359651300001PubMedID: 39528134OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-210131DiVA, id: diva2:1917492
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Funding Agencies|Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) [SSM2019-9660]; European Union [101057511, 101106068]; MCIN/AEI [PID2022-140680NB-I00]

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