Determination of selected actinides (U, Pu and Am) in Belarus soils using high resolution inductively coupled plasma mass and gamma spectrometry

Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-19

  Entwistle, Jane A ^a   Flowers, Alan G ^b   Greenwood, Joanna C ^b   Mellor, Antony ^a   Nageldinger, Guido ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actinides; Belarus; Chernobyl; HR ICP MS; Soil

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; FALLOUT; FISSION PRODUCTS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; LOCATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL; HIGH RESOLUTION INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES; HR-ICP-MS; PRODUCT CONTAMINATION; RADIOLOGICAL HAZARD; TRANSURANIUM ISOTOPES;

SOILS;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; RADIONUCLIDE; SOIL POLLUTION; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

BELARUS; EASTERN EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 14744296743     PISSN: 14677873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1467-7873/03-047     Document Type: Article

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