239+240Pu and 137Cs concentrations in fish, cephalopods, crustaceans, shellfish, and algae collected around the Japanese coast in the early 1990s

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 239, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 131-142

  Yamada, Masatoshi ^a   Aono, Tatsuo ^a   Hirano, Shigeki ^a  

^a Res Ctr Radioecology Natl I   (Japan)

Author keywords

137Cs; 239+240Pu; Japanese coast; Marine organisms; Radioactive contamination

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; SEA WATER; CESIUM; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

ALGA; ARTICLE; CEPHALOPOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; JAPAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SEASHORE; WATER POLLUTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FISH; MOLLUSC; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA; SHELLFISH; WATER POLLUTANT;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CRUSTACEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; JAPAN; MOLLUSCA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPES; SHELLFISH; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 0032586056     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00290-9     Document Type: Article

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