Abstract
The importance of certain air-pasture-herbivore-foodstuff pathways in a radiological impact assessment of airborne radioiodine necessitates a reliable quantitative simulation of the dynamics along each step of those pathways. Iodine's transport to and dynamics within a grass canopy are investigated, using a previously formulated filtration model as a contending simulator. The model's prediction is severally fitted (with high quality) to experimental data on the grassland retention of intercepted iodine, providing consistent model parameterisations, namely, that of the surface-lodged iodine, ≈20% is dislodged and ≈4% is assimilated per day. However, the model is not severely tested by the short experimental durations (up to one month) and shallow grassland canopies (up to 0·2 kg m −2 dry herbage density) for which predictions of retention depart insubstantially from exponentiality. The model is potentially a strong candidate for estimating the necessity for, and duration of, interdiction of radioiodine-contaminated grazing land — in respect of either actual contamination or a postulated contaminating scenario.
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