Effect of a radioactive waste of oil-producing complex on microbial community of gray forest soil

Abstract

In the laboratory-scale experiment effects of the wastes containing oil components and elements of natural radioactive families U238, Th232 and K40, on a microbial biomass, soil respiration, metabolic quotient, dehydrogenase activity and number of bacteria of genus Azotobacter of gray forest soil is studied.

Keywords

• oil products
• natural radioactive elements
• soil
• microbial biomass
• respiration