Leonid Abarbarchuk

Radionuclide Speciation in the Chornobyl NPP Cooling Pond Bed Following Drawdown

Abstract The cooling pond (CP) at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (ChNPP) is one of the most heavily contaminated radioactive water bodies in the Chornobyl exclusion zone (ChEZ). This study investigates the geochemical behavior of irradiated nuclear fuel particles (FPs) and ass...