Fukushima-derived radionuclides in the ocean and biota off Japan

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

Volumn 109, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5984-5988

  Buesseler, Ken O ^a   Jayne, Steven R ^a   Fisher, Nicholas S ^b   Rypina, Irina I ^a   Baumann, Hannes ^b   Baumann, Zofia ^b   Breier, Crystaline F ^a   Douglass, Elizabeth M ^a   George, Jennifer ^b   Macdonald, Alison M ^a   Miyamoto, Hiroomi ^c   Nishikawa, Jun ^c   Pike, Steven M ^a   Yoshida, Sashiko ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137;

ARTICLE; BIOTA; FISH; JAPAN; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA; SEA SURFACE WATERS; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FISHES; HUMANS; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RADIOISOTOPES; TSUNAMIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84860014261     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120794109     Document Type: Article

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