Authors: Petra Planinšek Borut Smodiš Ljudmila Benedik
Publish Date: 2016/05/27
Volume: 309, Issue: 1, Pages: 351-365
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate transfer of 238U 230Th 226Ra and 210Pb from substrate contaminated with different amounts of uraniummill tailings to eatable plants radish savoy and rocket The applied radiochemical procedure allows for simultaneous determination of all investigated nuclides from a single sample test portion The results obtained indicate significant linear correlation between content of the radionuclides in soil and plants as well as between content of the radionuclides in plants and pedological parameters while contamination has no effect on photochemical efficiency and content of photosynthetic pigments in the selected plantsThis work was financially supported by the Slovenian Research Agency contracts No P20075 and P10143 The authors thank Jurana Company for performing pedological analyses Dr Špela Mechora from the Biotechnical Faculty University of Ljubljana is greatly acknowledged for determining biochemical and physiological parameters of plants
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