Resuspension of coarse fuel hot particles in the Chernobyl area

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 5-16

  Wagenpfeil, Florian ^a   Tschiersch, Jochen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosol sampler; Chernobyl fallout; Digital autoradiography; Hot particles; Resuspension

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADIOISOTOPE;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; RESUSPENSION;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; INSTRUMENT; LEACHING; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION; RADIATION DETECTION; SAMPLING; TECHNIQUE;

CHERNOBYL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE;

EID: 0035239285     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0265-931X(00)00081-3     Document Type: Article

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