Assessment of state-of-the-art models for predicting the remobilisation of radionuclides following the flooding of heavily contaminated areas: the case of Pripyat River floodplain

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 267-288

  Monte, Luigi ^a   Periañez, Raul ^b   Kivva, Sergey ^c   Laptev, Gennady ^d   Angeli, Giacomo ^a   Barros, Haydn ^b   Zheleznyak, Mark ^c  

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c Institute of Mathematical Machines and System Problems   (Ukraine)

^d Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute Kiev   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Contaminated floodplain; Modelling; Radionuclides; Remobilisation

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CONTAMINATION; FLOODS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RADIOACTIVITY; STRONTIUM;

CONTAMINATED FLOODPLAIN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; REMOBILISATION;

RADIOISOTOPES;

CESIUM 137; STRONTIUM 90;

CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; EXPERIMENT; FLOODPLAIN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIONUCLIDE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; FLOODING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PREDICTION; RIVER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NATURAL DISASTERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RIVERS; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; UKRAINE; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PRIPYAT RIVER;

EID: 33646527820     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2006.02.006     Document Type: Article

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