Predictive Contamination of Animal Products Due th the Inhalation of Air and the Ingestion of Soil of Cattle in an Accidental Release of Radioactive Materials - Focusing on Contaminative Influence for Milk

원자력 사고시 가축의 공기 흡입과 토양 섭취에 의한 축산물의 오염 - 우유에 대한 오염 영향을 중심으로

  • Published : 2003.12.30

Abstract

In an accidental release of radioactive materials to the environment the contaminative influence of animal products due to the inhalation of air and the ingestion of soil of livestock, both of which are dealt with as minor contaminative pathways in most radioecological models but may not be neglected, was investigated with the improvement of the Korean dynamic food chain model DYNACON Although mathematical models for both contaminative pathways have been established for considering all animal products and incorporated into the model, investigation was limited to milk. As a result, it was found that both pathways are influential in the contamination of milk in the case of an accidental release during the non-grazing period of dairy cows. In the case of an accidental release during the non-grazing period, the inhalation of air was more influential than the ingestion of soil in the early days following an accidental release. While, it was the opposite with the lapse of time. If precipitation is encountered during an accidental release, contaminative influence due to the ingestion of soil was greater compared with the cases of no precipitation, in general, because of a stealer deposition of radionuclides onto the ground. Precipitation during an accidental release was a less influential factor in $^{131}I$ (elemental iodine) contamination compared with the $^{137}Cs\;and\;^{90}Sr$ contaminations. In the case of an accidental release during the grazing period of dairy cows, the contaminative influence due to the inhalation of air was negligible.

동적 섭식경로모델 DYNACON을 개선하여 원자력시설의 사고시 환경으로 누출된 방사성물질에 의한 가축의 공기 흡입과 토양 섭취에 따른 축산물의 오염 영향을 고찰하였다. 이들 두 오염경로에 대한 수학적 모델은 고려되는 모든 축산물에 대해 수립되었지만 결과에 대한 상세 고찰은 우유에 국한하였다. 젖소의 공기 흡입과 토양 섭취는 방사성물질의 환경 누출이 목초가 성장하지 않는 비방목 기간에 일어나는 경우에 우유의 중요한 오염경로가 될 수 있다는 사실을 알 수 있었다. 비방목 기간동안 방사성물질이 환경으로 누출되는_경우 초기에는 공기 흡입이 토양 섭취에 의한 영향보다 높으나, 시간이 경과할수록 토양 섭취가 우유의 오염에 있어서 지배적 영향을 미쳤다. 이러한 현상은 전반적으로 지상으로 상대적으로 많은 침적을 일어나게 하는 누출기간 중 강우가 있는 경우에 보다 뚜렷하였다. $^{137}Cs$$^{90}Sr$의 경우와 달리 $^{131}I$은 누출기간 중 강우에 거의 영향을 받지 않았다. 방목기간에 방사성물질이 환경으로 누출되는 경우 누출기간 중 강우의 유무에 관계없이 공기 흡입에 의한 우유의 오염 영향은 무시 가능한 수준이었다.

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