Depth profiling of Pu, 241Am and 137Cs in soils from southern Belarus measured by ICP-MS and α and γ spectrometry

Journal of Environmental Monitoring

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 661-666

  Boulyga, Sergei F ^a   Zoriy, Myroslav ^b   Ketterer, Michael E ^c   Becker, J Sabine ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; CESIUM; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

ALPHA RADIATION SPECTROMETRY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BELARUS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; MARSH; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PEATLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECTROMETRY;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; AMERICIUM; CESIUM; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLUTONIUM; POWER PLANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; UKRAINE;

EID: 0041565303     PISSN: 14640325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b303621a     Document Type: Article

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