Vertical distributions of 239+240Pu activities and 240Pu/239Pu atom ratios in sediment cores: Implications for the sources of Pu in the Japan Sea

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 340, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 199-211

  Zheng, Jian ^a   Yamada, Masatoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

239+240Pu; 240Pu 239Pu; ICP MS; Japan Sea; Sediment core

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ESTUARIES; OCEAN CURRENTS; PLUTONIUM;

ATOM RATIOS; SEDIMENT CORES; SURFACE LAYERS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

SEDIMENTS;

PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240;

MARINE SEDIMENT; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; SEDIMENT CORE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FALLOUT; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; WORLD;

EID: 14844295814     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.09.015     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. T.M. Beasley, L.A. Ball, and B.A. Blakesley Plutonium and americium export to the north-east Pacific Ocean by Columbia River runoff Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci. 13 1981 659 669
2. K.O. Buesseler The isotopic signature of fallout plutonium in the North Pacific J. Environ. Radioact. 36 1997 69 83
3. 137Cs distributions at MANOP sites Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 49 1985 1195 1210
4. T. Gamo, N. Momoshima, and S. Tolmachyov Recent upward shift of the deep convection system in the Japan Sea, as inferred from the geochemical tracers tritium, oxygen, and nutrients Geophys. Res. Lett. 28 2001 4143 4146
5. 90Sr) and Pu isotopes in the Pacific Ocean: sources and trends. In Radionuclides in the Oceans (RADOC 96-97) Inputs and inventories. Guegueniat, P, Germain, P, Metivier H. (coordinators). Les Editions de Physique. Les Ulis, France; 1996. p. 29-58.
6. K. Hirose, M. Aoyama, and Y. Sugimura Plutonium and cesium isotopes in river waters in Japan J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 141 1990 191 202
7. K. Hirose, H. Amano, M.S. Baxter, E. Chaykovskaya, V.B. Chumichev, and G.H. Hong Anthropogenic radionuclides in seawater in the East Sea/Japan Sea: results of the first-stage Japanese-Korean-Russian expedition J. Environ. Radioact. 43 1999 1 13
8. K. Hirose, Y. Igarashi, M. Aoyama, and T. Miyao Long-term trends of plutonium fallout observed in Japan A. Kudo Plutonium in the environment 2001 Elsevier Science Amsterdam 251 266
9. K. Hirose, Y. Igarashi, M. Aoyama, C.K. Kim, C.S. Kim, and B.W. Chang Recent trends of plutonium fallout observed in Japan: plutonium as a proxy for desertification J. Environ. Monit. 5 2003 302 307
10. 210Pb in the East Sea (Sea of Japan) Sci. Total Environ. 237/238 1999 225 240
11. Y. Ikeuchi, H. Amano, M. Aoyama, V.I. Berezhnov, E. Chaykovskaya, and V.B. Chumichev Anthropogenic radionuclides in seawater of the Far Eastern seas Sci. Total Environ. 237/238 1999 203 212
12. T. Ito, T. Aramaki, T. Kitamura, S. Otosaka, T. Suzuki, and O. Togawa Anthropogenic radionuclides in the Japan Sea: their distributions and transport processes J. Environ. Radioact. 68 2003 249 267
13. Y. Kato, M. Hijikata, M. Uematsu, and H. Minami Changes of productivity and benthic scavenging of thorium-230 in the Japan Sea during the past 35,000 years The 6th International Conference on Paleoceanography, August 23-28, 1998, Lisbon, Portugal 1998
14. 237Np Sci. Total Environ. 237/238 1999 483 500
15. M.E. Ketterer, K.M. Hafer, C.L. Link, D. Kolwaite, J. Wilson, and W. Mietelski Resolving global versus local/regional Pu sources in the environment using sector ICP-MS J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 19 2004 241 245
16. 239Pu atom ratios in the bottom sediments of the NW Pacific Ocean J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 258 2003 265 268
17. C.K. Kim, C.S. Kim, B.U. Chang, S.W. Choi, C.S. Chung, and G.H. Hong Plutonium isotopes in seas around the Korean Peninsula Sci. Total Environ. 318 2004 197 209
18. T. Kishimoto, T. Sanada, K. Sato, and H. Higuchi Concentration of plutonium in squids collected from Japanese inshore measured by HR-ICP-MS, 1981-2000 J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 252 2002 395 398
19. 239Pu ratio, a potential geochronometer Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 72 1985 1 8
20. P.W. Krey, E.P. Hardy, C. Pachucki, F. Rourke, J. Coluzza, and W.K. Benson Mass isotopic composition of global fallout plutonium in soil Proceedings of a symposium of transuranium nuclides in the environment 1976 671 678 IAEA-SM-199-39
21. K. Kudo, Y. Marahara, D.C. Santry, T. Suzuki, S. Miyahara, and M. Sugahara Plutonium mass balance released from the Nagasaki A-bomb and the applicability for future environmental research Appl. Radiat. Isotopes 46 1995 1089 1098
22. S.H. Lee, J. Gastaud, P.P. Povinec, G.H. Hong, S.H. Kim, and C.S. Chung Distribution of Plutonium and americium in the marginal seas of the northwest Pacific Ocean Deep-Sea Res., II 50 2003 2727 2750
23. H.D. Livingston, and R.F. Anderson Large particle transport of plutonium and other fallout radionuclides to the deep ocean Nature 303 1983 228 231
24. 239Pu isotopic ratios in soils from the Marshall Islands using ICP-MS Sci. Total Environ. 278 2001 151 159
25. 239,240Pu inventories in water and sediment columns observed from 1980 to 1986 J. Oceanogr. Soc. Jpn. 43 1987 345 355
26. 137Cs in the east China and the Yellow Seas J. Oceanogr. 48 1992 23 35
27. S.D. Oktay, P.H. Santschi, J.E. Moran, and P. Sharma The 129iodine bomb pulse recorded in Mississippi River Delta sediments: results from isotopes of I, Pu, Cs, Pb and C Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64 2000 989 996
28. H.B.L. Pettersson, H. Amano, V.I. Berezhnov, E. Chaykovskaya, V.B. Chumichev, and C.S. Chung Anthropogenic radionuclides in sediments in the NW Pacific Ocean and its marginal seas: results of the 1994-1995 Japanese-Korean-Russian expeditions Sci. Total Environ. 237/238 1999 213 224
29. T. Senjyu The Japan Sea intermediate water; its characteristics and circulation J. Oceanogr. 55 1999 111 122
30. M. Uda Hydrographical studies based on simultaneous oceanographic surveys made in the Japan Sea and its adjacent waters during May and June, 1932 Rec. Oceanogr. Works Jpn. 6 1934 19 107
31. UNSCEAR. Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation; United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation Exposures to the Public from Man-made Sources of Radiation; United Nations, New York, 1993.
32. 239+240Pu on the continental margin of the East Chinese Sea Sci. Total Environ. 287 2002 97 105
33. 137Cs in sediments from Sagami Bay, western Northwest Pacific margin J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 246 2000 369 378
34. 137Cs in sediments from Tokyo Bay: distribution and inventory J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 245 2000 273 279
35. 137Cs distributions in seawater from the Yamato Basin and the Tsushima Basin in the Japan Sea J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 210 1996 129 136
36. 226Ra migration Geochem. J. 20 1986 29 40
37. J. Zheng, and M. Yamada Sediment core record of global fallout and Bikini close-in fallout Pu in Sagami Bay, western Northwest Pacific margin Environ. Sci. Technol. 38 2004 3498 3504
38. J. Zheng, M. Yamada, Z.L. Wang, T. Aono, and M. Kusakabe Determination of plutonium and its isotopic ratio in marine sediment samples using quadrupole ICP-MS with the shield torch system under normal plasma conditions Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 379 2004 532 539