Curtis E J, Popplewell D S, Ham G J
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Food Science Division, London, United Kingdom.
Sci Total Environ. 1991 Jun;105:211-31. doi: 10.1016/0048-9697(91)90342-c.
Seaborne sediments deposited in the estuaries of the Esk, Duddon, Leven and Kent have been analysed for fission products and actinides discharged in waste from the Sellafield processing works in west Cumbria, and the values compared with the generally expected values due to fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. Analyses of tissues from sheep grazing the marshes of these estuaries show that the internal radiation dose of the general public through eating mutton or liver from these animals would be at most a few percent of recommended limits. Analytical data are presented on the actinide content of beef cattle, and on potato crops grown under field conditions; these data show that, as with the sheep data, the radiation dose to the consumer would be small.
对沉积在埃斯克河、达顿河、利文河和肯特河河口的海相沉积物进行了分析，以检测从坎布里亚郡西部塞拉菲尔德处理厂排放的废物中的裂变产物和锕系元素，并将这些数值与因大气层核武器试验沉降物产生的一般预期值进行比较。对在这些河口沼泽地放牧的绵羊组织进行的分析表明，公众通过食用这些动物的羊肉或肝脏所接受的内部辐射剂量最多为推荐限值的百分之几。文中给出了肉牛的锕系元素含量以及田间种植的马铃薯作物的分析数据；这些数据表明，与绵羊的数据一样，消费者所接受的辐射剂量很小。
