Antinuclear

Highlights

• Marine radioecology studies at the FDNPP coast: process-based modelling and field investigations

• Dynamic modelling of transfer between seawater, sediments and the biological compartments

• New data on submarine groundwater discharges and ocean circulation of radionuclides

• We formulate a strategy for marine radioecology based on processes-based research.

• We highlight the need for more ecology knowledge in marine radioecology.

Abstract

This paper focuses on how a community of researchers under the COMET (CO-ordination and implementation of a pan European projecT for radioecology) project has improved the capacity of marine radioecology to understand at the process level the behaviour of radionuclides in the marine environment, uptake by organisms and the resulting doses after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident occurred in 2011. We present new radioecological understanding of the processes involved, such as the interaction of waterborne radionuclides with suspended particles and sediments or the biological uptake and turnover…