Impacts of the Fukushima nuclear power plants on marine radioactivity

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9931-9935

  Buesseler, Ken ^a   Aoyama, Michio ^b   Fukasawa, Masao ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; COASTAL SEDIMENTS; COASTAL WATERS; CONTAMINATED SOURCES; DOSE CALCULATION; MARINE BIOTA; MARINE RADIOACTIVITY; OCEAN DISCHARGES; OCEAN WATER;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CESIUM; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IODINE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES;

MARINE POWER PLANTS;

GROUND WATER; RADIOISOTOPE;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EARTHQUAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; JAPAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUCLEAR REACTOR; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; SEA; SEA FOOD; SEA POLLUTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 82355163513     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202816c     Document Type: Article

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