782ec845-2135-4698-8881-b38823e533bf English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:15:32 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Spatial datasets of radionuclide contamination in the Ukrainian Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 2017-07-24 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/782ec845-2135-4698-8881-b38823e533bf 10.5285/782ec845-2135-4698-8881-b38823e533bf doi: Kashparov, V., Levchuk, S., Zhurba, M., Protsak, V., Khomutinin, Y., Beresford, N.A., Chaplow, J.S. (2017). Spatial datasets of radionuclide contamination in the Ukrainian Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/782ec845-2135-4698-8881-b38823e533bf Data comprise radionuclide deposition, radioactivity dose measurements, radioactive particle activity and physical characteristic information from soil samples collected within and around the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) following the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. Data include radiocaesium, radiostrontium and soil chemistry parameters from soils collected in 1997, plutonium isotope measurements in soil samples and soil layers collected in 2000 and 2001, 'Hot particle' dataset presenting radionuclide activity and some physical characteristics of 'hot particles' extracted from soils collected in the Ukraine and Poland between 1995 and 1997; and Ivankov region data (radionuclide activity concentrations and natural background dose measurements) from a survey of the Ivankov region, immediately to the south of the CEZ conducted in 2014. Funding for preparing this data set was provided by the EU COMET project (http://www.radioecology-exchange.org/content/comet) and TREE (http://www.ceh.ac.uk/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/10.5285/782ec845-2135-4698-8881-b38823e533bf Kashparov, V. Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine and CERAD CoE Environmental Radioactivity/Department of Environmental Sciences vak@uiar.org.ua author Levchuk, S. Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine slava@uiar.kiev.ua author Zhurba, M. Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine marina@uiar.kiev.ua author Protsak, V. Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine valik@uiar.kiev.ua author Khomutinin, Y. Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine yuriy@uiar.kiev.ua author Beresford, N.A. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-0238 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Chaplow, J.S. 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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Human Health and Safety theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication nuclear power plant radionuclide radioactive contamination GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Ukraine Chernobyl Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Environmental risk Environmental survey Radioecology radioecology otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology of National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Kashparov, V., Levchuk, S., Zhurba, M., Protsak, V., Khomutinin, Y., Beresford, N.A., Chaplow, J.S. (2017). Spatial datasets of radionuclide contamination in the Ukrainian Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/782ec845-2135-4698-8881-b38823e533bf textTable 50 English utf8 environment 1986-04-26 2014-12-31 19.809 40.509 45.989 54.451 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/782ec845-2135-4698-8881-b38823e533bf Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/782ec845-2135-4698-8881-b38823e533bf.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Soil samples were dried, sieved (1 mm sieve) and homogenized. Sub-samples were taken from each sample for the determination of the total contents of radionuclides: Gamma spectrometry measurements were performed using HPGe-detectors, of 30 % relative efficiency and 1.90 keV FWHM for 1333 keV (GEM-30185, EG&G ORTEC, USA) and a multichannel analyser (ADCAM-300, ORTEC, USA) using GammaVision32 software. The efficiency calibration was carried out for the 1 L Marinelli geometry using a spiked soil sample containing 241Am, 243Am, 152Eu, 154Eu, 137Cs, 40K. The average counting time was about 1 hour; for samples of lower activity the counting time was extended to obtain an acceptable error on the measurement (<30 % at 95th percentile confidence interval). The activity of 90Sr was determined using a radiochemical method with treatment of the samples by boiling in 6M nitric acid for four hours. Standard methods were used to determine organic matter content (GOST 26213-91), pHH2O (GOST 26423-85), pHKcl (GOST 26483-85), hydrolytic acidity (determined using the Kappen method (GOST 26212-91)), exchangeable Ca (GOST 26487-85), exchangeable K and P contents were determined using a method appropriate to the specific soil type (GOST 26207-91, GOST26204-91).