Comparison of Pu and 137Cs as tracers of soil and sediment transport in a terrestrial environment

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 383-393

  Everett, S E ^a   Tims, S G ^a   Hancock, G J ^b   Bartley, R ^b   Fifield, L K ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

137Cs; 239+240Pu; 240Pu 239Pu ratio; Accelerator Mass Spectrometry; Fallout; Radionuclide tracer; Soil transport

Indexed keywords

EROSION; GUNS (ARMAMENT); RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SEDIMENTATION; SOILS;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; RADIONUCLIDE TRACERS; SOIL TRANSPORT;

RADIOISOTOPES;

CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOISOTOPE; TRACER;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FALLOUT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL EROSION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRACER; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALF-LIFE; PLUTONIUM; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 39049091498     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2007.10.019     Document Type: Article

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