ARTIFICIAL RADIOACTIVE NUCLIIDES IN MARINE ENVIRONMENT: DETRIMENTAL TO LIFE

Abstract

The object of this paper is to know what are the artificial radioactive nucliides in marine environment, where and what are the sources of their products, what are their effects to the health of marine and land populations. With this view in mind we shall discuss the large‐scale production of man‐made artificial nucliides that have been poured into the oceans since about the middle of the present century. The first significant release of radioactive nucliides to the marine environment began in late 1944 in USA with the discharge of effluent from her reactors at Hanford Atomic Plant to the North East Pacific Ocean via Columbia River. In the following year, July 1945, an atom bomb was tested successfully and the detonation of two more tests of atom bombs at Bikini Atoll (Pritchard et al, 1971; Seymour, 1971) introduced enough amount of radioactive nucliides into the North Equatorial Current System of the Pacific Ocean.

Citation

Idrees Ali, M., Shahadat Hossain, M. and Jashimuddin, M. (1997), "ARTIFICIAL RADIOACTIVE NUCLIIDES IN MARINE ENVIRONMENT: DETRIMENTAL TO LIFE", Humanomics, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp. 90-101. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018793