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. 2020 Aug 17;6(8):e04616. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04616

Table 1.

Ranking of areas within the Bryansk region by the level of radiation and chemical pollution (2000–2017).

N Districts of the Bryansk region Main gaseous air pollutants
Cs-137 contamination density, kBq/m2 Sr-90 contamination density, kBq/m2 Average annual effective dose, mSv
Total Of them:

VOC
NOx
SO2
CO
Gross emissions of gaseous pollutants per area, g/m2
Ecologically safe territories (control)
1 Kletnyansky
(n = 20861)
22.6 0.7 6.6 7.2 8.0 5.5 0.5 <0.1
Mglinsky
(n = 20382)
28.6 5.4 8.8 1.9 12.4 6.8 0.6 <0.1

Territories of chemical pollution

2 Dyatkovsky
(n = 76012)
9460 346 3790 2000 3310 39.3 1.1 0.2
Bryansk city
(n = 439901)
29600 3620 10700 2660 12600 9.0 6.1 <0.1

Territories of radioactive contamination

3 Novozybkovsky
(n = 12849)
9.0 5.0 0.5 0.0 2.3 470 8.6 2.1
Krasnogorsky
(n = 14472)
18.0 0.7 7.5 0.7 9.1 310 9.5 1.4
Gordeevsky
(n = 12526)
39.6 3.0 16.8 0.0 19.8 335 5.1 1.3
Zlynkovsky
(n = 13180)
56.2 4.1 17.3 7.2 27.6 421 16.7 1.8
Klimovsky
(n = 31273)
66.1 1.1 10.6 20.5 33.9 142 6.5 0.7

Territories of combined radiation-chemical contamination

4 Klintsy city
(n = 71915)
8170 1330 3650 165 3020 200 3.0 1.2
Novozybkov city
(n = 41608)
8220 1080 3180 771 3180 466 10.0 2.0

Volatile organic compounds (VOC).