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A 'Reference Site' in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: radionuclide and stable element data, and estimated dose rates

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Environmental Information Data Centre
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18 September 2026
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Summary

Data comprise radionuclide activity concentrations, stable element concentrations and both radionuclide and stable element concentration ratios for vegetation and wildlife samples collected in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) in 2014. Estimated absorbed dose rates for wildlife in the CEZ are also presented. Samples of soil, wild grass, earthworms, bees and other insects, small mammals, pine trees and frogs were collected in May and June 2014; frogspawn was collected in April 2015. Data were used to assess the uptake of radionuclides by wildlife living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) and also absorbed dose rates. The isotopes measured were: Americium-241, Caesium-137, Plutonium-238, -239 and -240, Strontium-90 (K-40 and U-238 activity concentrations were estimated from stable element data). Funding for this work was via the TREE project funded by the NERC, Environment Agency and Radioactive Waste Management Ltd. under the RATE programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ae02f4e8-9486-4b47-93ef-e49dd9ddecd4

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XML, HTML
Date added
15 September 2026
Harvest GUID
ae02f4e8-9486-4b47-93ef-e49dd9ddecd4
Extent (Latitude)
52.376° to 44.39°
Extent (Longitude)
22.129° to 40.218°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2018-02-20
Frequency of update
notPlanned
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© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian); Chernobyl Centre for Nuclear Safety (author); Unaffiliated (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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