Relative influence of 129I sources in a sediment core from the Kattegat area

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 323, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 195-210

  Lopez Gutierrez J M ^a   Garcia Leon M ^a   Schnabel, Ch ^b,c   Suter, M ^b   Synal, H A ^b   Szidat, S ^d,e   Garcia Tenorio R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

129I; Accelerator mass spectrometry; La Hague; Sediment core; Sellafield

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR FUELS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS;

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS; SEDIMENT CORES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

IODINE 129; NUCLEAR FUEL; ORGANIC MATTER;

IODINE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT CORE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENMARK; INDUSTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SWEDEN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; KATTEGAT; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 1842635377     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2003.09.025     Document Type: Article

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