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Article: Data on boreal environment described by researchers at University of Helsinki.
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- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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According to recent research from Helsinki, Finland, "This paper reviews studies on environmental americium, Am-241, in Finland. There are two sources of americium in the Finnish environment: fallouts from nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s and 1960s and from the Chernobyl accident in 1986, the former constituting around 98% of the total environmental load."
"The weapons test fallout was distributed more or less uniformly over Finland, while the Chernobyl fallout was deposited on a sector from southwestern coast to northeast. The total deposition of Am-241 in Finland is approximately 20 Bq m(-2) and the amount is still somewhat increasing due to decay of Pu-241. ...