Temporal variation of 240Pu/239Pu atom ratio and 239+240Pu inventory in water columns of the Japan Sea

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 5951-5957

  Yamada, Masatoshi ^a   Zheng, Jian ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

240Pu 239Pu atom ratios; Close in tropospheric fallout; Double focusing SF ICP MS; Global stratospheric fallout; Japan Sea; Temporal variability; Tsushima Warm Current; Water column

Indexed keywords

ATOM RATIO; CLOSE-IN; DOUBLE FOCUSING; GLOBAL STRATOSPHERIC FALLOUT; JAPAN SEA; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TSUSHIMA WARM CURRENT; WATER COLUMN;

ALPHA PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; ATOMS; FALLOUT; FOCUSING; MASS SPECTROMETERS; PLUTONIUM ALLOYS; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATERS; TROPOSPHERE;

PLUTONIUM;

PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER; PLUTONIUM;

FALLOUT; INFLOW; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; SEAWATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COOLING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVAPORATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA POLLUTION; SPECTROMETRY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; CHEMISTRY; RADIATION MONITORING; SEA; STATISTICS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

JAPAN; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 77958098020     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.08.054     Document Type: Article

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