Survey of the Dispersion of 14C in the Vicinity of the UK Reprocessing Site at Sellafield
Issue Date
1990-01-01Keywords
berriesCumbria England
Sellafield England
northern England
nuclear facilities
England
models
tree rings
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Holocene
Plantae
Europe
Western Europe
Cenozoic
Quaternary
wood
geochronology
C 14
carbon
dates
isotopes
radioactive isotopes
absolute age
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Otlet, R. L., Walker, A. J., & Fulker, M. J. (1990). Survey of the dispersion of 14C in the vicinity of the UK reprocessing site at Sellafield. Radiocarbon, 32(1), 23-30.Journal
RadiocarbonAdditional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
We have been measuring 14C in natural, biological materials growing in the vicinity of Sellafield, Cumbria as a continuing project with BNFL to understand the dispersion of releases from the site over several seasons. We have measured locally grown foodstuffs for monitoring purposes, individual tree rings to establish a chronology of releases, hawthorn berries for spatial investigations and are now carrying out controlled plot uptake experiments. We have been attempting to validate a current dispersion model (Clarke 1979) over a six-year period, and although we observe general agreement in most years, certain anomalies, which probably relate to topographical features, are leading to more detailed correlation with local meteorological data.Type
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0033-8222ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1017/S0033822200039928