Distribution of plutonium and americium in the marginal seas of the northwest Pacific Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 17-21, 2003, Pages 2727-2750

  Lee, Sang Han ^a   Gastaud, Janine ^a   Povinec, Pavel P ^a   Hong, Gi Hoon ^b   Kim, Suk Hyun ^b   Chung, Chang Su ^b   Lee, Kwang Woo ^c   Pettersson, Hakan B L ^a,d  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPES; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS;

DRY WEIGHT;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AMERICIUM; FALLOUT; MARGINAL SEA; MARINE SEDIMENT; PLUTONIUM; SEAWATER;

(NORTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141615858     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00150-4     Document Type: Article

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