Abstract
Tritium (3 H) transfer into environment must be modelled differently than the transfer of other radionuclides released from nuclear reactors because hydrogen represents the building blocks of life. A solid understanding of 3 H behaviour is essential because 3 H may be released in large quantities from CANDU (CANada Deuterium Uranium) reactors and from future thermonuclear reactors. Recently, the authors published a complex dynamic metabolic model for 3 H and 14 C transfer in farm and wild animals, but the model applications for wild biota were restricted to too few examples and mostly for 14 C transfer. In this study, the model is applied to few selected wild animals for 3 H uptake. Despite the lack of any experimental data for wild animals, the results presented in this study are less uncertain than for many other radionuclides and can provide a useful estimation for biota radioprotection.
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