Development of a system for the prediction of radionuclide migration in the off Shimokita region and its case study

Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 112-126

  Kobayashi, Takuya ^a   In, Teiji ^b   Ishikawa, Yoichi ^c   Matsuura, Yasutaka ^b   Shima, Shigeki ^b   Nakayama, Tomoharu ^b   Awaji, Toshiyuki ^c   Kawamura, Hideyuki ^a   Togawa, Orihiko ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Japan Marine Science Foundation   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nuclear emergency; Ocean general circulation model; Prediction; Radionuclide dispersion model; Spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; FORECASTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES;

ACCIDENTAL RELEASE; CALCULATION RESULTS; DISPERSION MODELING; LIQUID RADIOACTIVE WASTES; NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

EID: 47749083544     PISSN: 13472879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3327/taesj.J07.025     Document Type: Article

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