Disaster waste characteristics and radiation distribution as a result of the great east Japan earthquake

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3618-3624

  Shibata, Tomoyuki ^a   Solo Gabriele, Helena ^b   Hata, Toshimitsu ^c  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEVATED LEVEL; RADIATION DISTRIBUTION;

ARSENIC; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; MERCURY (METAL); TSUNAMIS;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; LEAD; MERCURY; METAL DERIVATIVE; METALLOID; NICKEL; SELENIUM; SILVER;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RADIATION BUDGET; SEPARATION; TSUNAMI; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISASTER WASTE; EARTHQUAKE; ELECTRONIC WASTE; INCINERATION; JAPAN; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RECYCLING; TSUNAMI; WASTE; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; ELECTRONIC WASTE; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; METALS; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

JAPAN;

EID: 84859317050     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300055m     Document Type: Article

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