Marine radioactivity assessment of Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 237-238, Issue , 1999, Pages 249-267

  Povinec, Pavel P ^a   Woodhead, Dennis ^b   Blowers, Paul ^b   Bonfield, Rachel ^b   Cooper, Malcolm ^c   Chen, Quingjiang ^d   Dahlgaard, Henning ^d   Dovlete, Constantin ^a   Fox, Vanessa ⁱ   Froehlich, Klaus ^e   Gastaud, Janine ^a   Gröning, Manfred ^e   Hamilton, Terry ^f   Ikeuchi, Yoshihiro ^a   Kanisch, Günther ^g   Krüger, Alois ^g   Kwong, Laval Liong Wee ^a   Matthews, Murray ^h   Morgenstern, Uwe ⁱ   Mulsow, Sandor ^a   Pettersson, Håkan ^a   Smedley, Paul ^b   Taylor, Ben ^b   Taylor, Claude ⁱ   Tinker, Rick ^h   more..

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AGENCY   (Australia)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g INSTITUT FÜR SEEFISCHEREI   (Germany)

^h National Radiation Laboratory of New Zealand   (New Zealand)

ⁱ GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Atoll; Marine radioactivity; Nuclear sites; Nuclear weapons; Radionuclides

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; BIOACCUMULATION; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING;

ATOMIC BOMB; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MONITORING; SEA; SEA POLLUTION; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NUCLEAR WARFARE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPES; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032875225     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00140-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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