Model & data based assessment of the impacts of drawdown of the Chornobyl NPP Cooling Pond on the Cs-137 concentrations in water, sediments and biota

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Model & data based assessment of the impacts of drawdown of the Chornobyl NPP Cooling Pond on the Cs-137 concentrations in water, sediments and biota Roman Bezhenar1, Mark Zheleznyak2, Dmitri Gudkov3, Volodymyr Kanivets4, Gennady Laptev4, Valentyn Protsak 4 , Aya Sakaguchi 5 , Kenji Nanba 2 , Toshihiro Wada 2 , Tsutomu Kanasashi 2 , Sergey Kireev 6 , Dmytro Veremenko 6 , Oleg Nasvit 7 , and Shinichiro Uematsu 8