Predictive Contamination of Animal Products Due to the Inhalation of Air and the Ingestion of Soil of Cattle in an Accidental Release of Radioactive Materials - Focusing on Contaminative Influence of Milk

In an accidental release of radioactive materials to the environment, the contaminative influence of animal products due to the inhalation of air and the ingestion of soil of cattle, both of which are considered as minor contaminative pathways in most radioecological models but may be important ones, was investigated with the improvement of the Korean radioecological model DYNACON. Although mathematical models for both contaminative pathways have been established for considering all animal products and incorporated into the model, investigation was limited to milk. As a result, it was found that both pathways are influential in the contamination of milk during the non-grazing period of dairy cows. Precipitation was an influential factor in milk contamination due to the ingestion of soil, especially for 137Cs. In the case of an accidental release during the grazing period of dairy cows, the contaminative influence due to the inhalation of air was negligible irrespective of the existence of precipitation du...