Ground-water transport of tritium and krypton 85 from a nuclear detonation cavity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Guell, Margaret A ^a   Hunt, James R ^b  

^a Strand Associates Inc   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Field scale; Groundwater; Modeling; Nuclear weapons; Radionuclides; Tracers

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CALIBRATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGY; KRYPTON; NUCLEAR ENERGY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADIOISOTOPES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TRITIUM; UNDERGROUND EXPLOSIONS;

ELUTION CURVES; NUCLEAR DETONATIONS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUCLEAR WEAPON; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; TRACER;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

TRITIUM;

EID: 17144453638     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001WR001249     Document Type: Article

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