Some aspects of evaluation of the role of soils as a shielding medium from ionizing-radiation

Abstract

This article discusses the evaluation of the role of soil as a medium that attenuates doses of radiation during the determination of ecosystem service costs. Some problems of simulation of doses of radiation in terrestrial ecosystems are also considered. An algorithm of the description of the establishment of doses of radiation to living organisms in the soil, on its surface, or at some distance from it is proposed. This algorithm makes it possible to take into account the migration of radioactive substances in a certain volume of soil and the irregularity of its shielding properties. The possibility of connection of the module of the dynamics of soil moisture is shown. A version of the simulation model—namely, DoseMod_3D_soil—is given as an example of implementation of the algorithm.