Estimate of European129I releases supported by129I analysis in an alpine ice core

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 5891-5896

  Reithmeier, Herbert ^a   Lazarev, Vitali ^a   Rühm, Werner ^b,e   Schwikowski, Margit ^c,d   Gäggeler, Heinz W ^c,d   Nolte, Eckehart ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); GLACIERS; ICE; IODINE; NUCLEAR FUELS;

ALPINE ICE CORE; DEPOSITION FLUXES; SELLAFIELD OPERATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ICE; IODINE 129; NUCLEAR FUEL; RAIN; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GLACIERS; ICE; IODINE; NUCLEAR FUELS;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; EMISSION; GLACIER; ICE CORE; IODINE; NUCLEAR WEAPON;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; EUROPE; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEA POLLUTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; ATOMIC WARFARE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; HISTORY; ICE COVER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; POLLUTANT; SEA; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

BASSE-NORMANDIE; COTENTIN; CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GARD; LA HAGUE; LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON; MANCHE; MARCOULE; SELLAFIELD; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; ICE; ICE COVER; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEAR WARFARE; OCEANS AND SEAS; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33749398408     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0605725     Document Type: Article

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