Global risk of radioactive fallout after major nuclear reactor accidents

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4245-4258

  Lelieveld, J ^a,b   Kunkel, D ^a   Lawrence, M G ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DISPERSION; FALLOUT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION;

CHERNOBYL; FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; KIEV [UKRAINE]; TOHOKU; UKRAINE;

EID: 84861152864     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-4245-2012     Document Type: Article

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