Transfer of 131I from Fukushima to the vegetation and milk in France

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9998-10003

  Parache, V ^a   Pourcelot, L ^a   Roussel Debet, S ^a   Orjollet, D ^a   Leblanc, F ^a   Soria, C ^a   Gurriaran, R ^a   Renaud, Ph ^a   Masson, O ^a  

^a Operations Division   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; CALCULATED VALUES; DRY DEPOSITION VELOCITIES; IN-SITU; IODINE CONCENTRATION; IODINE-131; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; SITE TO SITES; TRANSFER FACTOR; TRANSFER PARAMETERS;

ISOTOPES; RADIOACTIVITY;

IODINE;

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; GRASS; IODINE; MILK; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE DECAY; RADIONUCLIDE; VEGETABLE;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; FRANCE; GRASS; JAPAN; MILK; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DETECTION; VEGETABLE; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR REACTOR; POACEAE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION;

FRANCE; FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; FRANCE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; MILK; NUCLEAR REACTORS; POACEAE; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; VEGETABLES;

EID: 82355190969     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202242g     Document Type: Article

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