Environmental modelling of radioactive contamination of floodplains and sorlakes along the Techa and Iset rivers

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 243-257

  Aarkrog, A ^a   Trapeznikov, A V ^b   Molchanova, I V ^b   Yushkov, P I ^b   Pozolotina, V N ^b   Polikarpov, G G ^c   Dahlgaard, H ^a   Nielsen, S P ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c A O KOVALEVSKY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS OF RAS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Caesium 137; Inventories; MAYAK; Plutonium; Strontium 90

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 239; STRONTIUM 90;

FLOODPLAIN; POLLUTION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEDIMENT;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0034064530     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0265-931X(99)00122-8     Document Type: Article

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