caa a22 4500 467904812 CHVBK 20180406152830.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10661-006-5251-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10661-006-5251-7 Radiocaesium Activity Concentrations in Wheat Grains in the Republic of Croatia for 1965-2003 and Dose Assessment [Elektronische Daten] [Zdenko Franić, Gordana Marović, Nevenka Lokobauer] Results of systematic, long-term measurements of 137Cs activities in wheat for the period 1965-2003 are summarized. Radiocaesum fallout activities affect wheat activity concentrations, the coefficient of correlation being 0.91. In the observed period, the highest activity of 137Cs deposited by fallout, 6321 Bq m−2, was recorded in 1986, i.e., in the year of Chernobyl accident, causing peak 137Cs activity concentration in wheat of 38.0 ± 13.0 Bq kg−1. After the Chernobyl nuclear accident the 134Cs:137Cs activity ratio in wheat was ≈0.5, and did not differ from the value found in other environmental samples. The transfer coefficient from 137Cs fallout deposition to wheat was calculated to be 8.6 × 10−3 Bq y kg−1 per Bq m−2, indicating the low transfer of radiocaesium from fallout to wheat. The upper limit for the collective effective dose for the Croatian population due to 137Cs and 134Cs ingestion by wheat and wheat products consumption for period 1965-2003 was estimated to be 665 person-Sv, the upper limit for the annual collective effective dose in 2003 being only about 0.061 person-Sv. Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2006 Chernobyl fallout nationallicence dose assessment nationallicence radiocaesium nationallicence radioecological sensitivity nationallicence wheat grains nationallicence Franić Zdenko Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Radiation Protection Unit, 2 Ksaverska Street, HR-10001, Zagreb, Croatia aut Marović Gordana Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Radiation Protection Unit, 2 Ksaverska Street, HR-10001, Zagreb, Croatia aut Lokobauer Nevenka Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Radiation Protection Unit, 2 Ksaverska Street, HR-10001, Zagreb, Croatia aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 115/1-3(2006-04-01), 51-67 0167-6369 115:1-3<51 2006 115 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-006-5251-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-006-5251-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Franić Zdenko Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Radiation Protection Unit, 2 Ksaverska Street, HR-10001, Zagreb, Croatia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Marović Gordana Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Radiation Protection Unit, 2 Ksaverska Street, HR-10001, Zagreb, Croatia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lokobauer Nevenka Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Radiation Protection Unit, 2 Ksaverska Street, HR-10001, Zagreb, Croatia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 115/1-3(2006-04-01), 51-67 0167-6369 115:1-3<51 2006 115 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer