Transuranic elements in fishes compared to 137Cs in certain lakes in Finland

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 99-104

  Ikäheimonen, Tarja K ^a   Saxén, Ritva ^a  

^a STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

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