Specific activity and activity ratios of radionuclides in soil collected about 20km from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant: Radionuclide release to the south and southwest

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 4885-4888

  Tagami, Keiko ^a   Uchida, Shigeo ^a   Uchihori, Yukio ^a   Ishii, Nobuyoshi ^a   Kitamura, Hisashi ^a   Shirakawa, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cesium 134; Cesium 137; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant; Iodine 131; Radioactivity ratio; Soil

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RATIOS; CESIUM 137; CESIUM-134; CHERNOBYL FALLOUT; IODINE-131; NOBLE GAS; RADIONUCLIDE RELEASE; SOIL SAMPLE; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; TRACE AMOUNTS;

BARIUM; CESIUM; FALLOUT; IODINE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; ZIRCONIUM;

RADIOISOTOPES;

BARIUM 140; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 136; CESIUM 137; INERT GAS; IODINE 131; LANTHANUM 140; NIOBIUM 95; RADIOISOTOPE; RUTHENIUM 103; RUTHENIUM 106; SILVER 110M; TECHNETIUM 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZIRCONIUM 95;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; IODINE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE; SOIL POLLUTION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLOUT; GAMMA RADIATION; JAPAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL POLLUTION;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RADIOISOTOPES; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TELLURIUM;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 80053319201     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.07.067     Document Type: Article

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