{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["47(23)"],"submitter":["Payne TE"],"pubmed_abstract":["Radioactive waste containing a few grams of plutonium (Pu) was disposed between 1960 and 1968 in trenches at the Little Forest Burial Ground (LFBG), near Sydney, Australia. A water sampling point installed in a former trench has enabled the radionuclide content of trench water and the response of the water level to rainfall to be studied. The trench water contains readily measurable Pu activity (~12 Bq/L of (239+240)Pu in 0.45 μm-filtered water), and there is an associated contamination of Pu in surface soils. The highest (239+240)Pu soil activity was 829 Bq/kg in a shallow sample (0-1 cm depth) near the trench sampling point. Away from the trenches, the elevated concentrations of Pu in surface soils extend for tens of meters down-slope. The broader contamination may be partly attributable"],"journal":["Environmental science & technology"],"pagination":["13284-93"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3854837"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Trench 'bathtubbing' and surface plutonium contamination at a legacy radioactive waste site."],"pmcid":["PMC3854837"],"pubmed_authors":["Hughes CE","Zawadzki A","Harrison JJ","Payne TE","Hankin SI","Thiruvoth S","Johansen MP","Rowling B","Wilsher KL","Cendon DI"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Trench 'bathtubbing' and surface plutonium contamination at a legacy radioactive waste site.","description":"Radioactive waste containing a few grams of plutonium (Pu) was disposed between 1960 and 1968 in trenches at the Little Forest Burial Ground (LFBG), near Sydney, Australia. A water sampling point installed in a former trench has enabled the radionuclide content of trench water and the response of the water level to rainfall to be studied. The trench water contains readily measurable Pu activity (~12 Bq/L of (239+240)Pu in 0.45 μm-filtered water), and there is an associated contamination of Pu in surface soils. The highest (239+240)Pu soil activity was 829 Bq/kg in a shallow sample (0-1 cm depth) near the trench sampling point. Away from the trenches, the elevated concentrations of Pu in surface soils extend for tens of meters down-slope. The broader contamination may be partly attributable","dates":{"release":"2013-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2013","modification":"2025-04-04T12:47:14.03Z","creation":"2019-03-27T01:18:08Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC3854837","cross_references":{"pubmed":["24256473"],"doi":["10.1021/es403278r"]}}