239Pu and 240Pu inventories and 240Pu/ 239Pu atom ratios in the equatorial Pacific Ocean water column

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 430, Issue , 2012, Pages 20-27

  Yamada, Masatoshi ^a   Zheng, Jian ^b  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

240Pu 239Pu atom ratios; Close in tropospheric fallout; Double focusing SF ICP MS; Equatorial Pacific Ocean; Global stratospheric fallout; Water column

Indexed keywords

ATOM RATIO; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; SF-ICP-MS; TROPOSPHERIC FALLOUT; WATER COLUMNS;

ALPHA PARTICLE SPECTROMETERS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLUTONIUM ALLOYS; SEAWATER; TROPOSPHERE;

FALLOUT;

GROUND WATER; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; PLUTONIUM; SEA WATER;

DEPOSITION; EMISSION INVENTORY; FALLOUT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; SEAWATER; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; REFERENCE VALUE; WATER POLLUTION; CHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; WATER POLLUTANT;

MARSHALL ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

MASS SPECTROMETRY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84861148696     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.04.065     Document Type: Article

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