Some aspects of plutonium in and around the former Soviet Union's Semipalatinsk nuclear test site

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2001, Pages 375-399

  Yamamoto, M ^a   Hoshi, M ^b   Takada, J ^b   Tsukatani, T ^c   Oikawa, S ^d   Yoshikawa, I ^e   Takatsuji, T ^e   Sekerbaev, A Kh ^f   Gusev, B I ^f  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Japan Chemical Analysis Center   (Japan)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Kazakh Scientific Research Institute for Radiation Medicine and Ecology   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

137Cs; 239,240Pu; 240Pu 239Pu atomic ratio; Atomic bomb; Former USSR; Long lived radionuclides; Radioecology; Residual radioactivity; Semipalatinsk; Soil

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342294735     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(01)80025-5     Document Type: Article

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