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Indirect assessment of internal irradiation from tritium decay on Lemna Minor duckweed

  • Ifayefunmi, O.S. (Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering of the National Research Nuclear University "Mephi") ;
  • Mirseabasov, O.A. (Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering of the National Research Nuclear University "Mephi") ;
  • Synzynys, B.I. (Obninsk Institute for Nuclear Power Engineering of the National Research Nuclear University "Mephi")
  • Received : 2020.03.31
  • Accepted : 2020.12.11
  • Published : 2021.06.25
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Abstract

The response changes of the specific growth rate of Lemna minor duckweed was modeled using the logarithms of frond numbers on tritium activity concentration and gamma radiation dose from cobalt 60. The concept of average specific growth rate depends on the general exponential growth pattern, where toxicity is estimated based on the effect on the growth rate. One of the main questions of the effect of the radiation dose on duckweed is how to correlate the effect of beta radiation with the effect of any other radiation for modeling radiation on Lemna minor. Experimental data were extrapolated by utilizing the OECD guidelines. A linear relationship of absorbed dose and activity concentration was obtained for the average dependency growth rate of Lemna minor as D = (0.1257)·A0.585. The dose rate of gamma irradiation from 60Co increases with tritium activity dependence, on the specific growth rate of the Lemna minor duckweed. An increase in the tritium activity causes a decrease in the specific growth rate of the Lemna minor duckweed. It indicates that as the quantity of the beta radiation dose increase in Lemna minor duckweed, a higher quantity of gamma radiation will be required to cause the same effect in the specific growth rate of Lemna minor duckweed. The relation between the inhibition of the Lemna minor seedling growth and gamma and beta radiation dosage agrees roughly with that between the decrease of survival rate or fertility and dosage.

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