FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Po-210 and Pb-210 in the tissues of the deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus from the Menez Gwen field (Mid-Atlantic Ridge) BT AF CHARMASSON, Sabine LE FAOUDER, Antoine LOYEN, Jeanne COSSON, Richard P. SARRADIN, Pierre-Marie AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:3;5:4; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-REM-EEP-LEP; C1 IFREMER, IRSN DEI Ctr, F-83507 La Seyne Sur Mer, France. IRSN DEI, F-78116 Le Vesinet, France. Univ Nantes, MMS, F-44322 Nantes 3, France. IFREMER, Ctr Brest, DEEP, F-29280 Plouzane, France. C2 IRSN, FRANCE IRSN, FRANCE UNIV NANTES, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-REM-EEP-LEP IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-france copubli-univ-france IF 3.286 TC 17 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00030/14172/11864.pdf LA English DT Article CR MOMARETO BO Unknown DE ;Po-210;Pb-210;Radionuclide;Bathymodiolus;Bioaccumulation;Hydrothermal vent AB The hydrothermal deep-sea vent fauna is naturally exposed to a highly specific environment enriched in potentially toxic species such as sulfides, metals and natural radionuclides due to the convective seawater circulation inside the oceanic crust and its interaction with basaltic or ultramafic host rocks. However, data on radionuclides in biota from such environment are very limited. An investigation was carried out on tissue partitioning of Po-210 and Pb-210, two natural radionuclides within the U-238 decay chain, in Bathymodiolus azoricus specimens from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (Menez Gwen field). These two elements showed different distributions with high Pb-210 levels in gills and high Po-210 levels in both gills and especially in the remaining parts of the body tissue (including the digestive gland). Various factors that may explain such partitioning are discussed. However, Po-210 levels encountered in B. azoricus were not exceptionally high, leading to weighted internal dose rate in the range 3 to 4 mu Gy h(-1). These levels are slightly higher than levels characterizing coastal mussels (similar to 1 mu Gy h(-1)). (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PY 2011 PD JAN SO Science Of The Total Environment SN 0048-9697 PU Elsevier Science Bv VL 409 IS 4 UT 000287109300014 BP 771 EP 777 DI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.10.025 ID 14172 ER EF