Radionuclides in fishes and mussels from the Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Dump Site, California

Health Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 167-178

  Suchanek, Thomas H ^a   Lagunas Solar, Manuel C ^b   Raabe, Otto G ^a   Helm, Roger C ^c   Gielow, Fiorella ^a   Peek, Neal ^a   Carvacho, Omar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c USFWS   (United States)

Author keywords

137Cs; 238Pu; 239Pu; fallout

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM 241; CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 238; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FISH; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0029898241     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199608000-00007     Document Type: Article

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