The total amounts of radioactively contaminated materials in forests in Fukushima, Japan

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hashimoto, Shoji ^a   Ugawa, Shin ^a   Nanko, Kazuki ^a   Shichi, Koji ^a  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICS; TIME; TREE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BIOMASS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DECONTAMINATION; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PLANT LEAVES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84861644051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00416     Document Type: Article

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