Transfer of 137Cs and stable Cs from soil to potato in agricultural fields

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 228, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 111-120

  Tsukada, Hirofumi ^a   Nakamura, Yuji ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

137Cs; Agricultural field; K; Potato; Soil; Stable Cs; Transfer factor

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; CESIUM; POTASSIUM;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CESIUM; CESIUM 137; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; POTASSIUM; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISOTOPE TRACING; NONHUMAN; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; JAPAN; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SOIL POLLUTANT;

JAPAN;

ABSORPTION; CESIUM; CORRELATION METHODS; CROPS; FALLOUT; FERTILIZERS; PHOSPHORUS; RADIOISOTOPES;

TRANSFER FACTORS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CESIUM; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; HUMANS; JAPAN; POTASSIUM; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0032660272     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00009-1     Document Type: Article

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