Soil-to-fungi transfer of 90Sr, 239+240Pu, and 241Am

Radiochimica Acta

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 75-80

  Baeza, A ^a   Guillen J ^a   Mietelski, J W ^b   Gaca, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

239+240Pu; 241Am; 90Sr; Fungi; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644521282     PISSN: 00338230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/ract.2006.94.2.75     Document Type: Article

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