Plutonium isotopes concentration in seawater and bottom sediment off the Pacific coast of Aomori sea area during 1991-2005

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 302-310

  Oikawa, Shinji ^a   Watabe, Teruhisa ^a   Inatomi, Naohiko ^a   Isoyama, Naohiko ^a   Misonoo, Jun ^a   Suzuki, Chiyoshi ^a   Nakahara, Motokazu ^a   Nakamura, Ryoichi ^a   Morizono, Shigemitsu ^a   Fujii, Seiji ^a   Hara, Takeya ^a   Kido, Katsutoshi ^a  

^a Teikokushoin Bldg 5F   (Japan)

Author keywords

239+240Pu; 240Pu 239Pu atom ratio; Radioactivity monitoring; Reprocessing plant; Seawater; Sediment

Indexed keywords

239+240PU; 240PU/239PU ATOM RATIO; ATOM RATIO; BACKGROUND LEVEL; BOTTOM SEDIMENTS; BOTTOM WATER; CLOSE-IN; GLOBAL FALLOUT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; REPROCESSING PLANT; SAMPLING POINTS; SEDIMENT SAMPLES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATOMS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FALLOUT; ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR FUELS; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM ALLOYS; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOACTIVITY; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING;

PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; SEA WATER;

BACKGROUND LEVEL; BOTTOM WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FALLOUT; MARINE SEDIMENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVITY; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATER; WATER DEPTH;

ARTICLE; FALLOUT; JAPAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING PLANT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; WATER SAMPLING;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

AOMORI; HONSHU; JAPAN; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; TOHOKU;

EID: 79951511080     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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