Проблемы использования лесных ресурсов из радиоактивно загрязненных регионов Беларуси

Abstract

The problem of radioactive contamination of forest ecosystems and use of forest resources has not lost its relevance even 30 years after the accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986. Despite the processes of physical decay of cesium-137 and strontium-90, contamination of timber and forest food production with these radionuclides in regions affected by the accident in Belarus has been reducing very slowly in recent years. This situation is caused by several factors: location of radionuclides mainly in the basal layer of the soil, biophysical and physico-chemical processes in the soil - radionuclides – plants system, causing high radionuclides digestibility of plants.