Estimation of apparent rate coefficients for radionuclides interacting with marine sediments from Novaya Zemlya

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 262, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 91-102

  Børretzen, Peer ^a   Salbu, Brit ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

109Cd2+ and 60Co2+ species; Apparent rate coefficients; Compartment models; Distribution coefficients (K(d)); Novaya Zemlya; Seawater sediment interactions

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

MARINE SEDIMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DESORPTION; GAMMA RADIATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR WASTE; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SEDIMENT;

CADMIUM RADIOISOTOPES; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; KINETICS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RADIOISOTOPES; RUSSIA; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0034735711     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(00)00575-1     Document Type: Article

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