Estuaries are dynamic systems that ensure the transition of water and contaminants from the river to the sea, including radionuclides released by nuclear installations in normal or accident situations.137Cs is a recurrent radionuclide in accidental situations and persistent in the environment. It has a strong affinity with particles in a fluvial environment but may be desorbed in the salinity gradient, a mechanism promoting its dispersion at sea and its transfer to marine organisms. The institute for radiation protection and nuclear safety (IRSN) has among its missions the description of the transfer of radioactivity into the environment. One tool is the numerical modeling of these transfers. For aquatic environments two models reproduce tr...