Quantifying 137Cs aggregated transfer coefficients in a semi-natural woodland ecosystem adjacent to a nuclear reprocessing facility

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 85-103

  Toal, M E ^a,d   Copplestone, D ^a   Johnson, M S ^a   Jackson, D ^b   Jones, S R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Chiltern Hse 45 Stn Rd H   (United Kingdom)

^c WESTLAKES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dose; Fungi; Invertebrates; Radiocaesium; Transfer factors

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; DOSIMETRY; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RADIOISOTOPES;

WOODLAND ECOSYSTEMS;

CESIUM;

CESIUM 137; RADIOISOTOPE; CESIUM;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; INVERTEBRATE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; VEGETATION; WOODLAND;

BETA RADIATION; BRACKEN FERN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; FRUIT; FUNGUS; GAMMA RADIATION; INVERTEBRATE; MYCENA GALERICULATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; SITKA SPRUCE; SOIL; TRANSPORT KINETICS; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETATION; WOOD; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ENGLAND(CUMBRIA); SELLAFIELD; UNITED KINGDOM;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; MYCENA; MYCENA GALERICULATA; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PTERIDIUM; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; HUMANS; POWER PLANTS; PTERIDIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 0036021071     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0265-931X(02)00018-8     Document Type: Article

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