Identifying the sources of subsurface contamination at the Hanford site in Washington using high-precision uranium isotopic measurements

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3330-3337

  Christensen, John N ^a   Dresel, P Evan ^b   Conrad, Mark E ^a   Maher, Kate ^c   Depaolo, Donald T ^a,c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER; NUCLEAR FUELS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES; URANIUM;

ISOTOPIC DATA; SUBSURFACE CONTAMINATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

GROUND WATER; URANIUM; URANIUM 234; URANIUM 235; URANIUM 238;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; URANIUM ISOTOPE; VADOSE ZONE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLUME; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; URANIUM; WASHINGTON; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

HANFORD; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 3042844303     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es034700q     Document Type: Article

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