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The dynamics of the main contaminating radionuclides in the components of aquatic ecosystems within the Chernobyl APP exclusion zone is considered. The possible causes are analyzed for the marked increase in the specific activity of 90Sr in water and hydrobionts of the lakes at the dammed left bank of river Pripyat. Notable is the elevated frequency of chromosomal aberrations in the root meristems of aquatic higher plants (up to 17%) and in the embryonal tissues of gastropod mollusks (up to 27%), alterations in the hematological indices for gastropods, and high infestation of aquatic higher plants by parasitic fungi and gall arthropods in the most radiocontaminated reservoirs.
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Original Russian Text © D.I. Gudkov, M.I. Kuzmenko, S.I. Kireev, A.B. Nazarov, N.L. Shevtsova, E.V. Dzyubenko, A.E. Kaglyan, 2009, published in Radiatsionnaya Biologiya. Radioekologiya, 2009, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 192–202.
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Gudkov, D.I., Kuzmenko, M.I., Kireev, S.I. et al. Radioecological problems of aquatic ecosystems of the chernobyl exclusion zone. BIOPHYSICS 55, 332–339 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0006350910020272
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