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Abstract
The tiny plutonium contamination of river sediments near a nuclear research center was measured with conventional radiochemical techniques. One could observe that up to some 10% of the emitted ar-activities were due to transuranium isotopes, the rest was due to uranium and thorium, resp. their decay products. The radioecological relevance of this observation is discussed.