The cooling pond of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: A groundwater remediation case history

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 677-688

  Bugai, Dmitri A ^a   Waters, Robert D ^b   Dzhepo, Sergei P ^a   Skalsk'ij, Alexander S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION;

UKRAINE, CHERNOBYL;

CONTAMINATION; COOLING; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH RISKS; LAKES; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; PONDING; POTABLE WATER; REMEDIATION;

CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATIONS; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DRINKING WATER STANDARDS; GROUND WATER REMEDIATION; INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSPORT; REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0030619005     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR03963     Document Type: Article

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