Environmental mobility of radiocaesium in the Pripyat catchment, ukraine/belarus

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 35-55

  Burrough, Peter A ^a   Van Der Perk, Marcel ^a   Howard, Brenda J ^b   Prister, Boris S ^c   Sansone, Umberto ^d   Voitsekhovitch, Oleg V ^e  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Ukraine Inst of Agric Radiology   (Ukraine)

^d Agenzia Naz Protez Ambiente (ANPA)   (Italy)

^e Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute Kiev   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Belarus; Chernobyl; Flooding; Organic soils; Pripyat River; Radiocaesium; Radionuclide transport; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MOBILITY; RADIOCAESIUM;

CESIUM; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOODS; RADIOISOTOPES; WATER POLLUTION;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CESIUM 137;

CESIUM; ELEMENT MOBILITY; ORGANIC SOIL; RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SOIL POLLUTION; UKRAINE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0033081778     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005028729330     Document Type: Article

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