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Chemosphere. 2001 Jan;42(1):69-72.

State of the environment in the arrangement area of the enterprises for repairing and utilization of nuclear-powered submarines.

Chemosphere

Dovgusha, Bychenkov, Blekher, Belyaev, Krupkin, Kovygin, Puzikov, Ryabchikov, Stepanov, Toropov

Affiliations

  1. Research Institute of Industrial and Marine Medicine, St Petersburg, pr. Yu.Gagarin, Russia. [email protected]

PMID: 11117602

Abstract

The influence of nuclear-powered utilization (disjunction) upon the state of health of the soil, vegetation and atmospheric air was studied. It was stated that the concentration of hazardous metals in the air of an industrial site did not exceed the permissible levels. In the residential area the cases of increased concentrations of manganese and chromium were noted. The major pollutants of vegetation are manganese, titanium, copper and nickel. The authors propose a complex of anthropogenic factors to be the cause of the environmental contamination by hard metals. The volume activity of radioactive aerosols in the studied site is confined to the local hum.

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