Detection of technetium-99 in Ascophyllum nodosum from around the Welsh coast

Chemosphere

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2297-2303

  Oliver, Lucie R ^a   Perkins, William T ^a   Mudge, Stephen M ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; ICP MS; Irish Sea; Radioactivity; Seaweed; Sellafield

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOMARKERS; COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; SEAWEED; TECHNETIUM;

ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM; BIOMONITORING; SELLAFIELD;

MARINE POLLUTION;

RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99M;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOMARKERS; COASTAL ZONES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MARINE POLLUTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; SEAWEED; TECHNETIUM;

BIOMONITORING; DETECTION METHOD; MARINE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; SEAWEED; TECHNETIUM ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; ASCOPHYLLUM; ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PLUME; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE;

CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; SELLAFIELD; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

ASCOPHYLLUM NODOSUM;

EID: 33751006144     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.05.014     Document Type: Article

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