The total release of xenon-133 from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 112, Issue , 2012, Pages 155-159

  Stohl, Andreas ^a   Seibert, Petra ^b   Wotawa, Gerhard ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fukushima; Nuclear accident; Xenon 133

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATION; ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS; DISPERSION MODELS; FUKUSHIMA; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NOBLE GAS; NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT; OBSERVATION DATA; TOTAL EMISSIONS; XENON-133;

ACCIDENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IODINE; METEOROLOGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

XENON;

IODINE 133; NUCLEAR FUEL; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XENON 133;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; EMISSION INVENTORY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOACTIVITY; XENON;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; JAPAN; METEOROLOGY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; TIME FACTORS; XENON; XENON RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84863476293     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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