137Cs, 239 + 240Pu and 240Pu / 239Pu atom ratios in the surface waters of the western North Pacific Ocean, eastern Indian Ocean and their adjacent seas

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 366, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 242-252

  Yamada, Masatoshi ^a   Zheng, Jian ^a   Wang, Zhong Liang ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

137Cs; 240Pu 239Pu atom ratio; Eastern Indian Ocean; North Pacific Proving Grounds; Surface seawaters; Western North Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; FALLOUT; ISOTOPES; PLUTONIUM; SAMPLING; SEAWATER; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

137CS; 240PU / 239PU ATOM RATIO; EASTERN INDIAN OCEAN; NORTH PACIFIC PROVING GROUNDS; SURFACE SEAWATERS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN;

SURFACE WATERS;

AMERICIUM; CESIUM; ISOTOPE; PLUTONIUM; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; FALLOUT; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; OCEAN; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; INDIAN OCEAN; JAPAN; OCEAN CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

ANDAMAN SEA; ANTARCTICA; ASIA; BAY OF BENGAL; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST); INDONESIAN SEAS; JAPAN; KANTO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PHILIPPINES; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SULU; TOKYO [KANTO]; TOKYO [TOKYO (PRF)]; WESTERN MINDANAO;

EID: 33745698093     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.08.014     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Aarkrog A. Input of anthropogenic radionuclides into the World Ocean. Deep-Sea Res Part 2, Top Stud Oceanogr 50 (2003) 2597-2606
2. Bertine K.K., Chow T.J., Koide M., and Goldberg E.D. Plutonium isotopes in the environment: some existing problems and some new ocean results. J Environ Radioact 3 (1986) 189-201
3. 239,240Pu in world ocean water samples collected from 1992 to 1994. In: Guéguéniat P., Germain P., and Métivier H. (Eds). Radionuclides in the oceans: inputs and inventories (1996), Les Editions de Physique, Les Ulis 75-93
4. Bowen V.T., Noshkin V.E., Livingston H.D., and Volchok H.L. Fallout radionuclides in the Pacific Ocean; vertical and horizontal distributions, largely from GEOSECS Stations. Earth Planet Sci Lett 49 (1980) 411-434
5. Buesseler K.O. The isotopic signature of fallout plutonium in the North Pacific. J Environ Radioact 36 (1997) 69-83
6. 239 + 240Pu total measurements in surface and deep waters around Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls compared with Rangiroa atoll (French Polynesia). Sci Total Environ 237/238 (1999) 269-276
7. Diamond H., Fields P.R., Stevens C.S., Studier M.H., Fried S.M., Inghram M.G., et al. Heavy isotope abundances in 'Mike' thermonuclear device. Phys Rev 119 (1960) 2000-2004
8. Fowler S.W., Vallestra S., La Rosa J., and Fukai R. Vertical transport of particle-associated plutonium and americium in the upper water column of the northeast Pacific. Deep-Sea Res 30 (1983) 1221-1233
9. Godfrey S. Indonesian throughflow and Leeuwin current. In: Steele J.H., Turekian K.K., and Thorpe S.A. (Eds). Encyclopedia of ocean sciences vol. 3 (2001), Academic Press, San Diego 1309-1313
10. 239,240Pu concentrations in surface waters of the Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Res Part 2 Top Stud Oceanogr 50 (2003) 2675-2700
11. International Atomic Energy Agency. Global marine radioactivity database (GLOMARD). IAEA-TECDOC-1146 (2000), IAEA, Vienna 51 pp.
12. 237Np. Sci Total Environ 237/238 (1999) 483-500
13. Kennish M.J. Practical handbook of marine science. 2nd ed. (1994), CRC Press, Boca Raton 566 pp.
14. Kim C.K., Kim C.S., Chang B.U., Choi S.W., Chung C.S., Hong G.H., et al. Plutonium isotopes in seas around the Korean Peninsula. Sci Total Environ 318 (2004) 197-209
15. 239Pu ratio, a potential geochronometer. Earth Planet Sci Lett 72 (1985) 1-8
16. Krey P.W., Hardy E.P., Pachucki C., Rourke F., Coluzza J., and Benson W.K. Mass isotopic composition of global fallout plutonium in soil. Transuranium nuclides in the environment. Proc IAEA symp (1976), IAEA, Vienna 671-678
17. Lee S.Y., Huh C.A., Su C.C., and You C.F. Sedimentation in the Southern Okinawa Trough: enhanced particle scavenging and teleconnection between the equatorial Pacific and western Pacific margins. Deep-Sea Res Part 1 Oceanogr Res Pap 51 (2004) 1769-1780
18. Livingston H.D., and Anderson R.F. Large particle transport of plutonium and other fallout radionuclides to the deep ocean. Nature 303 (1983) 228-231
19. Lukas R. Pacific Ocean Equatorial Currents. In: Steele J.H., Turekian K.K., and Thorpe S.A. (Eds). Encyclopedia of ocean sciences vol. 4 (2001), Academic Press, San Diego 2069-2076
20. 137Cs, plutonium and americium isotopes in the Southern Ocean waters. Pap Meteorol Geophys 39 (1988) 95-113
21. 137Cs in the deep waters. J Oceanogr Soc Jpn 37 (1981) 135-144
22. 90Sr in the central North Pacific. J Oceanogr Soc Jpn 40 (1984) 416-424
23. 239,240Pu inventories in water and sediment columns observed from 1980 to 1986. J Oceanogr Soc Jpn 43 (1987) 345-355
24. 137Cs in the northern North Pacific. In: Teramoto T. (Ed). Deep ocean circulation, physical and chemical aspects. Elsevier oceanography series vol. 59 (1993), Elsevier, Amsterdam 157-167
25. Nakanishi T., Shiba Y., Muramatsu M., and Haque M.A. Estimation of mineral aerosol fluxes to the Pacific by using environmental plutonium as a tracer. In: Sakai H., and Nozaki Y. (Eds). Biogeochemical processes and ocean flux in the western Pacific (1995), TERRAPUB, Tokyo 15-30
26. 239Pu ratio in the ocean by using HR-ICP-MS. Anal Sci 17 (2001) i29-i32
27. Povinec P.P., Livingston H.D., Shima S., Aoyama M., Gastaud J., Goroncy I., et al. IAEA'97 expedition to the NW Pacific Ocean-results of oceanographic and radionuclide investigations of the water column. Deep-Sea Res Part 2 Top Stud Oceanogr 50 (2003) 2607-2637
28. Povinec P.P., Delfanti R., Gastaud J., La Rosa J., Morgenstern U., Oregioni B., et al. Anthropogenic radionuclides in Indian Ocean surface waters-the Indian Ocean transect 1998. Deep-Sea Res Part 2 Top Stud Oceanogr 50 (2003) 2751-2760
29. 239,240Pu in surface waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans-GLOMARD database. J Environ Radioact 76 (2004) 113-137
30. 239,240Pu concentration surface water time series in the Pacific and Indian oceans-WOMASS results. J Environ Radioact 81 (2005) 63-87
31. Qiu B. Kuroshio and Oyashio Currents. In: Steele J.H., Turekian K.K., and Thorpe S.A. (Eds). Encyclopedia of ocean sciences vol. 3 (2001), Academic Press, San Diego 1413-1425
32. UNSCEAR. Sources and effects of ionizing radiation (2000), United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, United Nations, New York
33. 239Pu atom ratios in sediment cores from the East China Sea and Okinawa Trough: Sources and inventories. Earth Planet Sci Lett 233 (2005) 441-453
34. 239 + 240Pu on the continental margin of the East China Sea. Sci Total Environ 287 (2002) 97-105
35. 239 + 240Pu in seawater from the East China Sea. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 256 (2003) 399-402
36. 137Cs concentrations in the surface seawater and marine organisms collected from the Japanese coast during the 1980s. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 230 (1998) 111-114
37. 137Cs distributions in seawater from the Yamato Basin and the Tsushima Basin in the Japan Sea. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 210 (1996) 129-136
38. Zheng J., and Yamada M. Sediment core record of global fallout and Bikini close-in fallout Pu in Sagami Bay, western Northwest Pacific margin. Environ Sci Technol 38 (2004) 3498-3504
39. 239Pu atom ratios in sediment cores: implications for the sources of Pu in the Japan Sea. Sci Total Environ 340 (2005) 199-211
40. Zheng J, Yamada M. Determination of Pu isotopes in settling particles at femtogram levels using inductively coupled plasma-sector field mass spectrometry with a high-efficiency sample introduction system. in preparation.