Distribution of detected artificial radionuclides in soil samples collected at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Minsk and Gomel (Republic of Belarus).

adistance from Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
berror shows one sigma standard deviation from counting statistics.
Samples were collected at CNPP, Minsk and Gomel, Kazakhstan during January 28 and February 3, 2012. Radionuclides were analyzed with a germanium-detector (relative detection efficiency: 27.8% by Canberra) coupled to a multi-channel analyzer for 80,000 s at Nagasaki Prefectural Institute for Environmental Research and Public Health, Nagasaki, Japan.