Experimental system to displace radioisotopes from upper to deeper soil layers

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-29

  Cazzola, Pietro ^a,b   Cena, Agostino ^a,b   Ghignone, Stefano ^a   Abete, Maria C ^a   Andruetto, Sergio ^a  

^a LIGURIA E VALLE D AOSTA   (Italy)

^b Assoc Naz Solidarieta Smile S C   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM ION; RADIOISOTOPE; RAIN;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; LABORATORY TEST; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SIMULATION; SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL; SOIL TREATMENT; ACCIDENT; ACID RAIN; ATOMIC WARFARE; BIOREMEDIATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FOOD CHAIN; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOACTIVITY; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTANT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ACCIDENTS; ACID RAIN; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DECONTAMINATION; FERTILIZERS; FOOD CHAIN; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR WARFARE; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 2942696124     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-3-1     Document Type: Article

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