Abstract

In a Swedish citizen science project, more than 200 elementary school classes participated in collecting fungi, soil samples, and droppings from deer and wild boar, from all over Sweden. The samples have been sent to a laboratory at Uppsala University where they are being analyzed through gamma spectroscopy with a shielded HPGe detector. The main objective is to scan the samples for Cs-137 from the Chernobyl accident and compare the data with measurements from 1986, but uptake of naturally occuring radionuclides like K-40 and radon daughters will also be determined. Together with the soil samples, transfer factors will be derived, and correlations for these factors will be sought for different species of fungi and soil types. The potential for correlating the results with different biological processes will also be investigated, in part through the collected animal droppings. This is a work in progress where the present status of the experimental setup and methodology are presented. Issues with the initial approach for corrections are discussed and preliminary results are presented.

Published in

eISBN: 978-2-7598-9106-1
Publisher: EDP Sciences

Conference

International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology (ND), MAY 19-24, 2019, Beijing, PEOPLES R CHINA

SLU Authors

• Lundén, Karl

  • Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Environmental Sciences


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023925002

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/111773