Apparent decline of the sediment 137Cs inventory of an abandoned reactor cooling reservoir: Export or uncertainty?

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 293-306

  Lewis, Gregory P ^a   Taylor, Barbara E ^a   Pinder III, John E ^a   Dixon, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

137Cs; Inventories; Lakes; Radiocesium; Remobilisation; Reservoir; Sediments

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; GROUND WATER; RADIOISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER;

LAKE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; RESERVOIR; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0034107949     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0265-931X(99)00127-7     Document Type: Article

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