Cesium-137 in Crimean Salt Waters

Abstract

The concentration of the technogenic radionuclide ¹³⁷Cs was studied in different groups of salt lakes of Crimean Peninsula. It was established that one of the major sources of ¹³⁷Cs input in them is the North Crimean Canal, which, up to 2014, had been delivering the Dnieper water with a high concentration of radionuclides of Chernobyl origin. Another source of ¹³⁷Cs inflow is Black Sea water through its drainage and direct interaction with the coastal salt lakes of Crimea, in which a positive correlation was observed between ¹³⁷Cs concentration and water salinity.