NCRP REPORT No 154. Cesium-137 in the Environment: Radioecology and Approaches to Assessment and Management

NCRP, 2007. — 380 р.
This Report was largely motivated by the fact that ¹³⁷Cs has often proven to be the most important long-term contributor to the environmental radiation dose received by humans and other organisms as a result of certain human activities. Over the past few decades, ¹³⁷Cs has been the most important residual radionuclide at many facilities in the nuclear weapons complex of the U.S. Department of Energy (Doe), at nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities, at some nuclear reactor sites, at many radioactive waste disposal sites, in soils worldwide as a result of global fallout from historic nuclear weapon testing, and in the former Soviet Union and other locales in Europe as a result of the Chernobyl accident. In addition, there is concern about the use of ¹³⁷Cs by terrorists to create a so-called dirty bomb.
Properties of cesium isotopes
Physical, Chemical and Biological Properties of Cesium Isotopes
Processes Affecting General Distribution Patterns of Radiocesium
Radiocesium in the global environment
Sources of Radiocesium in the Environment
Geographic Distribution Patterns of Cesium-137 Deposition
Primary sites of local cesium-137 contamination in the united states
Savannah River Site
Oak Ridge Reservation
Hanford Site
Behavior and transport in terrestrial ecosystems
Chemistry and Sorption Properties of Cesium
Biogeochemical Transport Processes for Cesium
Modeling Approaches for Radiocesium in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Behavior and transport in freshwater ecosystems
Sediment-Water Partitioning of Cesium-137
Modeling Sediment/Water Processes for Cesium-137
Bioaccumulation of Cesium-137 in Aquatic Food Webs
Modeling the Bioaccumulation of Cesium-137 in Aquatic Food Webs
Towards Whole Ecosystem Modeling
Managing contaminated ecosystems
The No-Action Alternative
Remediation Techniques
Countermeasures Based on the Chernobyl Experience
Benefit-Cost Analyses