Levels of 14C in the terrestrial environment in the vicinity of two European nuclear power plants

Radiocarbon

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 863-868

  Magnusson, Åsa ^a   Stenström, Kristina ^a   Skog, Göran ^a   Adliene, Diana ^b   Adlys, Gediminas ^b   Hellborg, Ragnar ^a   Olariu, Agata ^c   Zakaria, Mohamad ^a   Rääf, Christopher ^a   Mattsson, Sören ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^c HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POINT SOURCE; RADIONUCLIDE;

ARTICLE; LAND BIOME; LITHUANIA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PINE; ROMANIA; SPRUCE; SWEDEN; WILLOW;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 4644319042     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003382220003589X     Document Type: Article

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