Groundwater vulnerability : Chernobyl nuclear disaster / edited by Boris Faybishenko, Thomas J. Nicholson, Vyacheslav Shestopalov, Alexander Bohuslavsky, Volodymir Bublias.

Washington, D.C. : AGU/American Geophysical Union ; Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, [2015]

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The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) disaster that occurred in Ukraine on April 26, 1986, was one of the most devastating in human history. Using this as a case study, the AGU monograph Groundwater Vulnerability: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster is devoted to the problem of groundwater vulnerability, where the results of long-term field and modeling investigations of radionuclide transport in soil and groundwater, within the Ukrainian part of the Dnieper River basin (Kyiv region of Ukraine), are discussed. The authors provide a comprehensive review of existing literature on the assessment of groundwater vulnerabiity and then describe an improved methodology developed based on integration of the methods of hydrogeological zonation and modeling of anomalously fast migration of radioactive contaminants from the land surface toward groundwater. The monograph also includes the evaluation of the effect of preferential and episodic flow on transport of radionuclides toward the aquifers and risk assessment of groundwater vulnerability.

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Print version: Groundwater vulnerability : chernobyl nuclear disaster. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, ©2015 Special Publications ; 16

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