Radionuclide analysis on bamboos following the fukushima nuclear accident

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Higaki, Takumi ^a,b   Higaki, Shogo ^a   Hirota, Masahiro ^a   Akita, Kae ^a   Hasezawa, Seiichiro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PHYLLOSTACHYS AUREA; PHYLLOSTACHYS CHINO; PHYLLOSTACHYS NIGRA; PHYLLOSTACHYS PUBESCENS; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; CHEMISTRY; SASA;

BAMBUSA;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; SASA;

EID: 84859367658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034766     Document Type: Article

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