Can 239+240Pu replace 137Cs as an erosion tracer in agricultural landscapes contaminated with Chernobyl fallout?

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-57

  Schimmack, W ^a   Auerswald, K ^b   Bunzl, K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chernobyl fallout; Erosion; Global fallout; Plutonium; Radiocaesium

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; CESIUM; PLUTONIUM; TRACER;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; EROSION; PLUTONIUM; SOIL CHEMISTRY; TRACER;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EROSION; FALLOUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; GERMANY; HUMAN; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOACTIVITY; SOIL POLLUTANT; UKRAINE;

EUROPE;

AGRICULTURE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GERMANY; HUMANS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADIOACTIVITY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; UKRAINE;

EID: 0034747639     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0265-931X(00)00117-X     Document Type: Article

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