Contamination of wild mushrooms with Cs after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant catastrophe in the Vyshhorod District of the Kyiv region of Ukraine

Grodzynska Ganna A. (), Nebesnyi Vitaliy B. and Teslenko Ihor K.
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Grodzynska Ganna A.: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute for Evolutionary Ecology, Acad. Lebedeva St. 37, Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine
Nebesnyi Vitaliy B.: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute for Evolutionary Ecology, Acad. Lebedeva St. 37, Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine
Teslenko Ihor K.: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute for Evolutionary Ecology, Acad. Lebedeva St. 37, Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine

Environmental & Socio-economic Studies, 2025, vol. 13, issue 1, 63-79

Abstract: Throughout the period 1990–2021, the activity of radiocaesium was measured using gamma spectrometry (using a HPGe detector) in sporocarps of 101 species of wild mushrooms and soil samples from localities in the Vyshhorod district of the Kyiv region, outside the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Especially high levels of radiocaesium activity were noted in the case of mycosymbiotrophs from the familie Cortinariaceae, Bankeraceae (S. imbricatus), Tricholomataceae (T. equestre, T. fulvum, A. clavipes), Russulaceae (Lactarius spp.), Boletaceae (I. badia, Suillus spp.), and Paxillaceae (P. involutus). According to the value of the calculated potential annual effective dose (contribution of 137Cs only) for the period 2020–2021, the most popular edible species of mushrooms of the residents of Ukrainian Polissya can be presented in the following sequence: B. edulis

Keywords: radiocaesium; bioaccumulation; fungi; effective dose; bioindication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.2478/environ-2025-0006

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