Di Lella Luigi A, Frati Luisa, Loppi Stefano, Protano Giuseppe, Riccobono Francesco
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali G. Sarfatti, Università di Siena, Via P.A. Mattioli 4, I-53100 Siena, Italy.
Chemosphere. 2004 Sep;56(9):861-5. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2004.04.036.
This paper reports the results of a study using lichens as biomonitors to investigate the environmental distribution of uranium and other trace elements at selected Kosovo sites. The results suggested that the use of depleted uranium (DU) ammunitions in Kosovo did not cause a diffuse environmental contamination in such a way to have caused a detectable U enrichment in lichens. Also isotopic (235)U/(238)U measurements did not indicate the presence of DU particles in lichens. The present results also provided no indication of intense environmental contamination by the other trace elements analyzed, with the exception of Kosovska Mitrovica, where a diffuse environmental contamination by several heavy elements such as Pb, Zn, As and Cd was found.
本文报告了一项研究的结果,该研究利用地衣作为生物监测器,调查科索沃选定地点铀和其他微量元素的环境分布情况。结果表明,在科索沃使用贫铀弹药并未造成扩散性环境污染,以至于在地衣中导致可检测到的铀富集。此外,同位素235U/238U测量结果也未表明地衣中存在贫铀颗粒。除了在科索夫斯卡米特罗维察发现有铅、锌、砷和镉等几种重金属造成的扩散性环境污染外,目前的结果也未显示出所分析的其他微量元素存在严重的环境污染迹象。