Cesium-137 concentration of soils in Pest County, Hungary

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
Katalin Zsuzsanna SzabóCsaba Szabó

Abstract

This paper presents the results of measurements of (137)Cs in soils in Pest County, Hungary. We investigated forty five soil monoliths from monitoring locations of a countrywide Soil Information and Monitoring System (SIMS) at depths of 0-30, 30-60, 60-90, 90-120 and 120-150 cm. The (137)Cs concentrations were determined by gamma spectroscopy. We found that only the upper layer of soil (0-30 cm) contained (137)Cs above the detection limit (0.5 Bq kg(-1)). The (137)Cs concentration values ranged from the detection limit to 61.1 Bq kg(-1) ± 2.2 Bq kg(-1) and were lognormally distributed. The concentrations had a geometric mean 6.4 Bq kg(-1) and a geometric standard deviation 2.3 (an arithmetic mean 9.5 Bq kg(-1), an arithmetic standard deviation 11.3 Bq kg(-1)). We constructed a (137)Cs map for Pest County this is the first detailed (137)Cs map in Hungary. Concentrations were systematically higher (10.0-61.1 Bq kg(-1)) than average in the Pilis and Buda Mountains and the Northern part of the Gödöllő Hills. In contrast, low concentrations (0.0-10.0 Bq kg(-1)) characterized the southern part of the Gödöllő Hills, the Pest Plane and the Börzsöny Mountains. Two highest values were 46.9 Bq kg(-1) and 61.1 Bq kg(-1): one of these local...Continue Reading

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