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Hydrobiological Journal

ISSN for PRINT: 0018-8166

Institutional price:	$1994.00
Issues per year:	6

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2006, Volume42

108 pages

Issue price - $398.00

Quantitative Characteristics of the Ways of ¹³⁷Cs Influx into the Organism of Cyprinus carpio (L.) and Ictalurus punctatus (Raf.) in the Cooling Pond of the Chernobyl NPS

O. L. Zarubin
Institute of Nuclear Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

The content of ¹³⁷Cs in free-living Cyprinus carpio and Ictalurus punctatus occurring in the cooling pond of the Chernobyl NPS, and also in the specimens of these species kept in breeding cages without artificial food, was studied in 1986−1988. It has been found that 97% of the total content of ¹³⁷Cs entered fish organism through their gastro-intestinal tract, 30% - through their integuments, and 5% - through their gills.