Iodine-129 and Caesium-137 in Chernobyl contaminated soil and their chemical fractionation

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 308, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 97-109

  Hou, X L ^a   Fogh, C L ^a   Kucera, J ^b   Andersson, K G ^a   Dahlgaard, H ^a   Nielsen, S P ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Caesium; Iodine; Neutron activation analysis; Sediment; Sequential extraction; Soil; Speciation

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CONTAMINATION; FRACTIONATION; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; IODINE; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY;

GAMMA-SPECTROMETRY;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CESIUM 137; IODINE 129; IODINE 131; ORGANIC MATTER; OXIDE;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; IODINE; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTRACTION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; SWEDEN;

BELARUS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SWEDEN;

EID: 0038077357     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00546-6     Document Type: Article

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