Ядерна фізика та енергетика Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy   ISSN: 1818-331X (Print), 2074-0565 (Online)   Publisher: Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine   Languages: Ukrainian, English   Periodicity: 4 times per year   Open access peer reviewed journal

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V. V. Belyaev^*, O. M. Volkova, D. I. Gudkov, S. P. Pryshlyak

Institute of Hydrobiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

^*Corresponding author. E-mail address: belyaev-vv@ukr.net

Abstract: Based on modeling the dynamics of the Chornobyl emission radionuclide content in the components of the most polluted reservoirs of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, the absorbed dose for helophytes was reconstructed. During the growing season of 1986, the absorbed dose of plants of Glyboke Lake was 78 Gy, Daleke Lake 39 Gy. The absorbed dose rate of plant roots was 2.4 times higher than that of aboveground organs. According to actual data, in the period 2016 - 2019 in the Glyboke Lake average dose of external and internal plant irradiation was about 7.5 mGy/year, and in the Daleke Lake 5.6 mGy/year. On abnormally contaminated sections of the Glyboke Lake, the external dose reaches 0.5 - 1.0 Gy/year. During the period 1986 - 2020, the maximum cumulative (biological) dose of helophytes of Glyboke Lake can be 190 Gy, Daleke Lake 80 - 85 Gy.

Keywords: higher aquatic plants, absorbed dose, radionuclides, modeling, an exclusion zone of the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.

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