Mulching as a countermeasure for crop contamination within the 30 km zone of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 882-886

  Yera, Teresa Sauras ^a   Vallejo, Ramon ^a   Tent, Joana ^a   Rauret, Gemma ^a   Omelyanenko, Nicolai ^b   Ivanov, Yuri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CONTAMINATION; CROPS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RADIOISOTOPES; STRAW;

MULCHING;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CESIUM 137; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CROP PRODUCTION; MULCHING; POLLUTION CONTROL; SOIL POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTAMINATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; CROP; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; SAMPLING; SOIL POLLUTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0033559379     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es980569o     Document Type: Article

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