Resolving Nevada Test Site and global fallout plutonium in attic dust and soils using 137Cs/239+240Pu activity ratios

Health Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-75

  Cizdziel, James ^a,b   Hodge, Vernon ^c   Faller, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

137Cs; Fallout; Plutonium; Soil

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; BUILDING; FALLOUT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOUSE DUST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOCHEMISTRY; SAMPLING; SOIL POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033065665     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199907000-00012     Document Type: Article

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