The behaviour of plutonium in the Pacific Ocean

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2001, Pages 267-292

  Livingston, Hugh D ^a   Povinec, Pavel P ^a   Ito, Toshimichi ^a   Togawa, Orihiko ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic; Fallout; GEOSECS; Inventories; Marine environment; Marine radioactivity; Pacific Ocean; Plutonium isotopes; Sediment; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243404972     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(01)80019-X     Document Type: Article

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