Radionuclide accumulation in near-shore sediments along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1721-1728

  Strezov, Alexander ^a   Milanov, Milko ^a   Mishev, Plamen ^a   Stoilova, Tatiana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND NUCLEAR ENERGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; SEDIMENTS;

BULGARIAN BLACK SEA COAST; NEAR SHORE SEDIMENTS; RADIONUCLIDE ACCUMULATION;

RADIOISOTOPES;

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; BULGARIA; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; OCEANS AND SEAS; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION MONITORING; ROMANIA; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; UKRAINE;

EID: 0032404524     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(97)10147-6     Document Type: Article

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