Wet deposition of fission-product isotopes to North America from the Fukushima Dai-ichi incident, march 2011

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2574-2582

  Wetherbee, Gregory A ^a   Gay, David A ^b   Debey, Timothy M ^a   Lehmann, Christopher M B ^b   Nilles, Mark A ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE WATER SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION FLUXES; NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION PROGRAMS; PRECIPITATION SAMPLES; SAMPLING PERIOD; SOLID SAMPLES; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; WET DEPOSITION;

METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; RADIOISOTOPES;

CESIUM;

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; IODINE 131;

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; COMPLEMENTARITY; DISASTER; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; WET DEPOSITION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRECIPITATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SOIL; UNITED STATES; WET DEPOSITION;

ATMOSPHERE; CESIUM; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FILTRATION; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEAR FISSION; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84857804815     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203217u     Document Type: Article

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