Impact of Cesium on Plants and the Environment

1. Front Matter

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2. Distribution of Caesium in Soil and its Uptake by Plants

   • Sergiy Dubchak

   Pages 1-18

3. Factors Influencing the Soil to Plant Transfer of Radiocaesium

   • J. Guillén, A. Baeza, A. Salas, J. G. Muñoz-Muñoz, A. Muñoz-Serrano

   Pages 19-33

4. Role of Mycorrhizal Fungi in Caesium Uptake by Plants

   • Sergiy Dubchak

   Pages 35-50

5. Influence of Biologically Active Preparations on Caesium-137 Transition to Plants from Soil on the Territories Contaminated after Chernobyl Accident

   • Alexander Shchur, Viktor Valkho, Dmitry Vinogradov, Volha Valko

   Pages 51-70

6. The Distribution of 137Cs in Selected Compartments of Coniferous Forests in the Czech Republic

   • Ivan Suchara

   Pages 71-99

7. Cesium Uptake in Plants: Mechanism, Regulation and Application for Phytoremediation

   • Ryoung Shin, Eri Adams

   Pages 101-124

8. Effective Half-Lives of Radiocesium in Terrestrial Plants Observed After Nuclear Power Plant Accidents

   • Keiko Tagami

   Pages 125-138

9. Cultivar Difference and Fertilizer Effects on Radioactive Cesium Accumulation in Rice Grown in Fukushima Paddy Field from 2011 to 2014

   • Nobuhiro Tanaka, Yoshihiro Ohmori, Toru Fujiwara

   Pages 139-148

10. Distribution of 137Cs Between the Components of Pine Forest of Chernobyl NPP Exclusion Zone

    • Maksim Kudzin, Viachaslau Zabrotski, Dzmitry Harbaruk

    Pages 149-169

11. Accumulation of Cesium by Aquatic Plants and Algae

    • Koji Iwamoto, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa

    Pages 171-185

12. Regularities of Accumulation of Cs-137 and Other Radionuclides in Aquatic Vegetation in the Territory of the South-Ural Biogeochemical Province of Techno-genic Radioactive Isotopes

    • I. Ya. Popova, N. N. Kazachonok

    Pages 187-208

13. Radiocesium Phytotoxicity to Single Cell and Higher Plants

    • D. Marčiulionienė, B. Lukšienė, D. Montvydienė, V. Sakalauskas, O. Sevriukova, R. Druteikienė et al.

    Pages 209-230

14. Sorbents for Radiocaesium Removal from Natural Water and Soil

    • A. V. Voronina, A. S. Kutergin, V. S. Semenishchev, E. V. Nogovitsyna, A. F. Nikiforov

    Pages 231-252

15. Analysis of Transfer Factor, Anatomical Changes and Growth of Plants During Phytoremediation of Cesium Contaminated Solutions

    • Roxana Moogouei, Mehdi Borghei, Golnaz Tajadod

    Pages 253-264

16. Remediation of Areas Contaminated by Caesium: Basic Mechanisms Behind Remedial Options and Experience in Application

    • Sergey Fesenko, Brenda J. Howard, Natalya Sanzharova, Miquel Vidal

    Pages 265-310

17. Back Matter

    Pages 311-319

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This book provides extensive and comprehensive knowledge to the researchers/academics who are working in the field of cesium contaminated sites, and the impact on plants. This book is also helpful for graduate and undergraduate students who are specializing in radioecology or safe disposal of radioactive waste, remediation of legacies and the impact on the environment. Radiocesium (¹³⁷Cs and ¹³⁴Cs) was released into the environment as a result of nuclear weapons testing in 1950s and 1960s (~1x10¹⁸ Bq), and later due to the Chernobyl accident in 1986 (8.5x10¹⁶ Bq) and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011 (~1x10¹⁷ Bq). ¹³⁷Cs is still of relevance due to its half-life of 30 years. The study of radioisotope ¹³⁷Cs is important, as production and emission rates are high compared to other radioisotopes, due to high fission yield and high volatility.


This book contains original work and reviews on how cesium is released into the environment on translocation from soil to plants and further on to animals and into the human food chain. Separate chapters focus on the effective half-life of cesium in plants and on how different cultivars are responding in accumulation of cesium. Other key chapters focus on cesium impact on single cells to higher plants and also on remediation measures as well as on basic mechanism used for remedial options and analysis of transfer factors. The book rounds off by contributions on cesium uptake and translocation and its toxicity in plants after the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents.

• Bioavailability of cesium
• Root uptake and foliar uptake
• Cesium accumulation and homeostasis in plants
• Cesium in forest and grassland
• Cesium remediation methods

• Institut für Radioökologie und Strahlenschutz (IRS), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  Dharmendra K. Gupta, Clemens Walther

Dharmendra K. Gupta is Sr. Scientist of Environmental Biotechnology and already published more than 70 refereed research papers/review articles in peer reviewed journals and edited nine books. His field of research includes abiotic stress by heavy metals/radionuclides and xenobiotics in plants; antioxidative system in plants, environmental pollution (heavy metal/radionuclide) remediation through plants (phytoremediation).


Clemens Walther is professor of radioecology and radiation protection and director of the Institute for Radioecology and Radiation Protection at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. He published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals. His field of research is actinide chemistry with a focus on solution species and formation of colloids, ultra-trace detection and speciation of radionuclides in the environment by mass spectrometry and laser spectroscopy.

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