Depleted uranium mobility and fractionation in contaminated soil (Southern Serbia)

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-67

  Radenković, Mirjana B ^a   Cupać, Svjetlana A ^b   Joksić, Jasminka D ^a   Todorović, Dragana J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Alpha spectrometry; Depleted uranium; Fractionation; Sequential extraction; Soil; Southern Serbia; Uranium isotopic ratios

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MOBILITY; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROFILE; URANIUM; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SERBIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

URANIUM;

ARTICLE; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; SOIL POLLUTANT; YUGOSLAVIA;

SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; URANIUM; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 41149138143     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1065/espr2007.03.399     Document Type: Article

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