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Radioactive Aerosols
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  • Radioactive Aerosols
  • Written by author Constantin Papastefanou
  • Published by Elsevier Science, January 2008
  • Whenever radioactivity is released to the atmosphere, for example by the detonation of nuclear weapons or the testing of nuclear weapons or from nuclear reactor accidents that fraction of it which remains airborne for more than a few hours is liable to be
  • Whenever radioactivity is released to the atmosphere, for example by the detonation of nuclear weapons or the testing of nuclear weapons or from nuclear reactor accidents that fraction of it which remains airborne for more than a few hours is liable to be
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Contributions     vii
Foreword     1
Atmospheric aerosol particles     3
Introduction and definitions     3
The size distribution of atmospheric aerosol particles     4
Aerosols and radiation: Generation of radioactive aerosols     6
Aerodynamic size distribution of radionuclide-associated aerosol particles (radioactive aerosols)     7
Aitken nuclei mode     7
Accumulation mode     7
Coarse particle mode     8
Mechanisms of formation and growth of aerosol particles     8
Coagulation and condensation     8
Gas-to-particle conversion     8
References     9
Radioactive aerosols     11
Introduction     11
Radioactive aerosols associated with the cosmic-ray produced radionuclides     11
Beryllium-7 aerosols     12
Radon and thoron decay product aerosols     16
Formation of radon decay product aerosols     16
Diffusivity of radon decay products     18
Attachment of radon decay products to aerosol particles     19
Activity size distributions of the radon product decay aerosols     21
Lead-214 and [superscript 212]Pb aerosol size distributions     21
Lead-210 vs [superscript 214]Pb aerosol size distributions     26
Lead-212 vs sulfate, SO[superscript 2- subscript 4] aerosol size distributions     26
Lead-210, [superscript 7]Be, [superscript 35]S, [superscript 32]P and sulfates, SO[superscript 2- subscript 4] vs [superscript 214]Pb and [superscript 212]Pb aerosol size distributions     27
[alpha]-Recoil model: An explanation for the [superscript 214]Pb shift in the aerosol size distributions     29
Recoil redistribution of [superscript 210]Pb following [superscript 214]Po [alpha]-decay     32
Radioactive aerosol particle sizes relative to growth mechanisms of sulfate, SO[superscript 2- subscript 4] aerosols     32
The unattached fraction of radon decay product aerosols     33
Mine aerosols     38
Fission product radionuclide aerosols     40
Radioactive aerosols associated with the operation of high-energy accelerators     49
Plutonium aerosols due to nuclear weapons testing or nuclear reactor accidents     52
References     54
Radioactive nuclides as tracers of environmental processes     59
Radioactivity in the environment     59
Atmospheric particle deposition     61
Dry deposition     61
Wet deposition     63
Resuspension      66
Air-to-vegetation transfer of radionuclides associated with submicron aerosols     67
References     68
Residence time of tropospheric aerosols in association with radioactive nuclides     71
Residence time of aerosol particles     71
Residence time of tropospheric aerosol particles associated with the cosmic ray produced [superscript 7]Be     73
Residence time of tropospheric aerosol particles associated with the radon decay product radionuclides [superscript 210]Pb, [superscript 210]Bi, [superscript 210]Po and the fission product radionuclides [superscript 89]Sr, [superscript 90]Sr, and [superscript 140]Ba and their activity ratios     75
Residence time of tropospheric aerosol particles associated with the fission product radionuclides [superscript 89]Sr, [superscript 90]Sr, [superscript 140]Ba and their activity ratios     79
Residence times of sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere     80
References     82
Radioactive particles and human subjects     85
Introduction     85
Radioactive dose from inhalation of radon decay product aerosols     85
Deposition of radioactive aerosol particles in the lung     102
Risk assessment due to inhalation of radon decay product aerosols     106
References     110
Aerosol sampling and measurement techniques      113
Introduction     113
Cascade impactors     116
Inertial impactors     117
Andersen cascade impactors     121
1 ACFM ambient cascade impactor     123
Low-pressure cascade impactor     124
Four-stage low-pressure cascade impactor     127
High volume cascade impactor     128
Activity size distribution of radioactive aerosol particles     129
Online [alpha]-impactor     130
A micro-orifice uniform deposit cascade impactor (MOUDI impactor)     135
Particle trap impactor     139
The diffusion battery method for aerosol particle size determination     141
Condensation particle counter battery     146
The Mercer-style impactor     148
Berner-type impactor     150
Dichotomous sampler     151
Compact multistage cascade impactor     153
K-JIST 5-stage cascade impactor     154
References     157
Appendices     161
Subject Index     169


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