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Title Groundwater vulnerability : Chernobyl nuclear disaster / edited by Boris Faybishenko, Thomas J. Nicholson, Vyacheslav Shestopalov, Alexander Bohuslavsky, Volodymir Bublias
Published Washington, D.C. : AGU/American Geophysical Union ; Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 119 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Series Special publications ; 69
Special publication (American Geophysical Union) ; 69.
Contents Title page; Copyright page; Abstract; Introduction; Importance of Lessons Learned from Assessment of Groundwater Vulnerability at Chernobyl; References; 1. Methods of Groundwater Vulnerability and Protectability Assessment; 1.1. Method of Hydrogeological Zoning; 1.2. Index Methods; 1.3. Parametric Methods; 1.4. Modeling Methods; 2. Chernobyl-Born Radionuclides In Geological Environment; 3. Preferential Flow and Migration Zones in Geological Environment; 3.1. State of Problem Study; 3.2. PFMZ Classification and Occurrence; 3.3. Methodological Approaches of PFMZ Study
3.4. Indicators of PFMZ Activity in Depressions3.5. Preliminary Evaluations of PFMZ Influence on Upper Groundwater; 3.6. Practical Importance of PFMZ; 4. Methodology of Groundwater Vulnerability and Protectability Assessment; 4.1. General Consideration; 4.2. Vulnerability and Protectability Assessment for Upper Groundwater (Unconfined Aquifer); 4.3. Vulnerability and Protectability Assessment for Confined Aquifers; 5. Groundwater Vulnerability and Protectability to Chernobyl-Born Radionuclide; 5.1. Upper Groundwater; 5.2. Confined Aquifers; 6. Summary; References; Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed October 17, 2014)
Subject Groundwater -- Pollution -- Ukraine
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Computer simulation
Radioactive pollution of water -- Ukraine
Water -- Pollution potential.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Environmental aspects
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- General.
Water -- Pollution potential
Radioactive pollution of water
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Computer simulation
Groundwater -- Pollution
Ukraine -- Chornobylʹ
Ukraine
Form Electronic book
Author Faybishenko, Boris, editor.
Nicholson, Thomas J., editor.
Shestopalov, Vi︠a︡cheslav Mikhaĭlovich, editor.
Bohuslavsky, Alexander, editor.
Bublias, Volodymir, editor.
American Geophysical Union.
ISBN 9781118962220
1118962222
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9781118962206
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