Assessment of individual radionuclide distributions from the Fukushima nuclear accident covering central-east Japan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 49, 2011, Pages 19526-19529

  Kinoshita, Norikazu ^a,c   Sueki, Keisuke ^a   Sasa, Kimikazu ^a   Kitagawa, Jun Ichi ^a   Ikarashi, Satoshi ^a   Nishimura, Tomohiro ^a   Wong, Ying Shee ^a   Satou, Yukihiko ^a   Handa, Koji ^a   Takahashi, Tsutomu ^a   Sato, Masanori ^b   Yamagata, Takeyasu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIMIZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deposition; Gamma ray spectrometry; Individual radioactivity

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; IODINE 131; TELLURIUM;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JAPAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE SOIL;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; EARTHQUAKES; GEOGRAPHY; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; NUCLEAR REACTORS; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RADIOISOTOPES; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 83755195615     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111724108     Document Type: Article

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