Artificial radionuclides in the Yellow Sea: Inputs and redistribution

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 8, Issue C, 2006, Pages 96-133

  Hong, G H ^a   Chung, C S ^a   Lee, S H ^b   Kim, S H ^a   Baskaran, M ^c   Lee, H M ^a   Kim, Y I ^a   Yang, D B ^e   Kim, C K ^d  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^e NONE

Author keywords

137Cs; 239+240Pu; 90Sr; Atmosphere; East China Sea; Northwest Pacific; Radionuclides; River water; Seawater; Sediment; Yellow Sea

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148859688     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(05)08007-1     Document Type: Review

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