Fractal and Topological Complexity of Radioactive Contamination

Abstract

There is verified the hypothesis about multifractal nature of radioactive contamination due to nuclear explosions on Semipalatinsk test site (STS) in Kazakhstan. The fields of terrestrial contamination have extreme high variability caused by a number of nature processes. There are used the methods of multifractal formalism and computation topology. The results of analysis support the existence of multifractal scaling which is different for natural and man-made isotopes. It means that there are "hot spots" of man-made Cs isotope contamination dangerous for human health, which can't be detected by the traditional in Kazakhstan techniques of measurements from air. Moreover, the finding of self-similarity could be the base of new methods of diagnostics of large territories.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP010918

Entities

People

  • A. G. Terekhov
  • L. M. Karimova
  • M. M. Novak
  • N. G. Makarenko

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computations
  • Contamination
  • Data Processing
  • Decomposition
  • Electronic Mail
  • Explosions
  • Geometry
  • Hot Spots
  • Kazakhstan
  • Measurement
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Probability
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Radioactive Contamination
  • Spectra
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Topology

Readers

  • Environmental Remediation and Restoration.
  • Seismology
  • Statistical inference.