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SAVE-IT
Spatial and Dynamic Prediction of Radiocaesium
Transfer to Food Products

Overview
The system comprises spatial datasets and radiocaesium transfer models encapsulated within a windows based user interface.  Spatial databases have been derived for Western Europe and contain relevant soil characteristics, food production statistics, agricultural management and human dietary habits.  These provide inputs to the models which predict food product contamination and subsequently estimate human dietary intake.

A key part of the system is a novel semi-mechanistic soil-plant transfer model which predicts plant activity concentrations on the basis of soil physical and chemical properties.  This model has been developed from experimental work within the SAVE project and evaluated using independent data collated by other groups.

The software and associated documentation are available from this website subject to the conditions of use below.

For more background information click here

Conditions of Use
SAVE-IT may be freely downloaded and used for any non-commercial purpose via link below. 

Users are required to recognise that no guarantees are made regarding the accuracy of predictions or reliability of the software, and at all times interpretation of models outputs requires expert judgement.

The University reserves the right to change these conditions of use at any time.

© 1999 University of Nottingham

Whilst the SAVE-IT software and documentation are freely available they do remain Intellectual Property of the University of Nottingham.

Download Software

You can download the SAVE-IT software together with documentation for its use.

[click here]

Any problems with the software please email:

save-it@nottingham.ac.uk

The application of the model to England and Wales has been described in:

Gillett AG, Crout NMJ, Absalom JP, Wright SM, Young SD, Howard BJ, Barnett CL, McGrath SP, Beresford NA, Voigt G, (2001). Temporal and spatial prediction of radiocaesium transfer to food products. Radiation & Environmental Biophysics, 40:27-235.

For a full pre-publication version of the paper [click here - pdf 350 kB]