Abstract: The regularities are studied of the decontamination of agricultural ecosystem components from 137 Cs deposited after the Chernobyl accident in a number of regions of Russia with different soils and climatic conditions. During the first 5-6 years after the deposition, it has been shown that the content of this radionuclide in vegetable and animal agricultural products decreased with the half-period 0.7 to 1.5 years. Beginning from 1990-1991, no significant variation of 137 Cs content in food products was found, and the values of the transfer fac...
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Environmental chemistry