Modeling fallout of anthropogenic 129I

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 9225-9230

  Englund, Edvard ^a   Aldahan, Ala ^a   Possnert, Göran ^a   Haltia Hovi, Eeva ^b   Hou, Xiaolin ^c   Renberg, Ingmar ^d   Saarinen, Timo ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

CHERNOBYL FALLOUT; ENGLISH CHANNEL; MARINE SOURCES; MEASUREMENTS OF; NUCLEAR REPROCESSING; NUMERICAL MODELING APPROACH; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; TRANSPORT PATHWAYS;

FALLOUT;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FALLOUT; IODINE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 58149172068     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8009953     Document Type: Article

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