Feasibility of using 236U to reconstruct close-in fallout deposition from the Hiroshima atomic bomb

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 5392-5398

  Sakaguchi, A ^a   Kawai, K ^b   Steier, P ^c   Imanaka, T ^d   Hoshi, M ^a   Endo, S ^a   Zhumadilov, K ^a   Yamamoto, M ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AMS; Black rain; Global fallout; Hiroshima atomic bomb; Radionuclide; Soil; Uranium

Indexed keywords

AMS; ATOMIC BOMBS; BLACK-RAIN; GLOBAL FALLOUT; RADIONUCLIDE;

ATOMS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); CESIUM; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPES; RAIN; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; URANIUM;

FALLOUT;

CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RAIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM 236; URANIUM DERIVATIVE; CESIUM; PLUTONIUM; URANIUM;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; FALLOUT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE; RECONSTRUCTION; SOIL POLLUTION; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FALLOUT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; JAPAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MINERALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER CONTENT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANT; WAR;

CHUBU; CHUGOKU; HIROSHIMA [CHUGOKU]; HONSHU; ISHIKAWA; JAPAN;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; JAPAN; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; URANIUM; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 77956879413     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.07.073     Document Type: Article

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