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Temporal trajectories of artificial radiocaesium 137Cs in French rivers over the nuclear era reconstructed from sediment cores

Yoann Copard
Maxime Debret
Laurence Lestel
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Benoît Losson
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Laurence Mansuy-Huault
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Emmanuelle Montarges-Pelletier
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Amandine Morereau
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Brice Mourier
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Vincent Ollive
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Laure Papillon
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Jorg Schafer
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Laurent Schmitt
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Richard Sempere
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Thierry Winiarski
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Olivier Evrard
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137Cs is a long-lived man-made radionuclide introduced in the environment worldwide at the early beginning of the nuclear Era during atmospheric nuclear testing’s followed by the civil use of nuclear energy. Atmospheric fallout deposition of this major artificial radionuclide was reconstructed at the scale of French large river basins since 1945, and trajectories in French nuclearized rivers were established using sediment coring. Our results show that 137Cs contents in sediments of the studied rivers display a large spatial and temporal variability in response to the various anthropogenic pressures exerted on their catchment. The Loire, Rhone, and Rhine rivers were the most affected by atmospheric fallout from the global deposition from nuclear tests. Rhine and Rhone also received significant fallout from the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and recorded significant 137Cs concentrations in their sediments over the 1970–1985 period due to the regulatory releases from the nuclear industries. The Meuse River was notably impacted in the early 1970s by industrial releases. In contrast, the Seine River display the lowest 137Cs concentrations regardless of the period. All the rivers responded similarly over time to atmospheric fallout on their catchment, underlying a rather homogeneous resilience capacity of these river systems to this source of contamination.
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hal-04624428 , version 1 (25-06-2024)

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Frédérique Eyrolle, Pierre-Alexis Chaboche, Hugo Lepage, Valerie Nicoulaud Gouin, Patrick Boyer, et al.. Temporal trajectories of artificial radiocaesium 137Cs in French rivers over the nuclear era reconstructed from sediment cores. Scientific Reports, 2024, 14, ⟨10.1038/s41598-024-64505-7⟩. ⟨hal-04624428⟩
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