Abstract

A unique data archive, accumulated at the Taifun Scientific and Industrial Association in 1954–2005, on the radioactive contamination of the environment on the territory of the USSR and Russia is presented. The archive contains data on the yearly total β activity of atmospheric fallout on the underlying surface, the total volume β activity in the atmosphere at the ground, the results of measurements of the 90Sr and 137Cs content in samples combined over one month or quarter, atmospheric aerosols and fallout on individual points, the volume activity of tritium and 90Sr in water, rivers, lakes and seas, and the radionuclide contamination density of the territories of populated points as a result of the Chernobyl accident.

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