| ORIGINAL ARTICLE |
|
| Year : 2018 | Volume
: 41
| Issue : 1 | Page : 12-15 |
|
|
Spatial distribution of fallout 137Cs in the marine environment of Kudankulam and its comparison with Indian and Asia-Pacific regional seawater
B Vijayakumar1, G Thomas1, BS Selvi1, PM Ravi2, RM Tripathi2
1 Division of Health Physics, Environmental Survey Laboratory, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Division of Health Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute; Division of Health Physics, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
B Vijayakumar
Environmental Survey Laboratory, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, Kudankulam, Tirunelveli - 627 120, Tamil Nadu
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/rpe.RPE_19_18
|
|
|
Benchmarking the fallout 137Cs in the coastal marine environment assumes significance in view of expansion of nuclear power plants (NPPs) in India and the Asia-Pacific region. This paper presents a snapshot of 137Cs activity in marine coastal water samples collected around Kudankulam NPPsite across a 50 km stretch from Kanyakumari to Uvari and attempts to compare with the 137Cs concentration observed across Indian coastal region and Asia-Pacific regional seawater. 137Cs activity of the Kudankulam coast ranges from ≤0.40 to 1.92 mBq/L with a geometric mean (GM) value of 1.0 mBq/L. In general, 137Cs activity in seawater of the entire Indian coastal region varies from 0.30 to 1.25 mBq/L, which may be considered as global fallout. |
|
|
|
| [FULL TEXT] [PDF]* |
|
 |
|
Search Pubmed for