Concentration of particulate plutonium in surface and deep-water samples collected during the IAEA'97 expedition

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 17-21, 2003, Pages 2639-2647

  Hirose, Katsumi ^a   Aoyama, Michio ^a   Povinec, Pavel P ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PLUTONIUM;

ORGANIC LIGANDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEEP WATER; PARTICULATE MATTER; PLUTONIUM; SURFACE WATER;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141483522     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00139-5     Document Type: Article

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