Plutonium in the marine environment at Thule, NW-Greenland after a nuclear weapons accident

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2001, Pages 15-30

  Dahlgaard, Henning ^a   Eriksson, M ^a,b   Ilus, E ^c   Ryan, T ^d   McMahon, C A ^e   Nielsen, S P ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^d Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Accident; Americium; Arctic; Bioturbation; Environmental radioactivity; Excess Pb 210; Greenland; Isotope ratios; Marine environment; Marine sediments Marine biota; Nuclear weapons; Plutonium; Sedimentation rate; Transfer factors

Indexed keywords

INDICATOR MINOR; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 77956655373     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(01)80004-8     Document Type: Article

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