Removal of radioactive iodine and cesium in water purification processes after an explosion at a nuclear power plant due to the Great East Japan Earthquake

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4397-4404

  Kosaka, Koji ^a   Asami, Mari ^a   Kobashigawa, Naoya ^a   Ohkubo, Keiko ^a   Terada, Hiroshi ^a   Kishida, Naohiro ^a   Akiba, Michihiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorination; Coagulation; Powdered activated carbon; Radioactive cesium; Radioactive iodine; Water purification process

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CESIUM; CHEMICAL WATER TREATMENT; EARTHQUAKES; IODINE; LAKES; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PURIFICATION; RADIOACTIVITY; TURBIDITY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKES; POND WATER; POWDERED ACTIVATED CARBON; PURIFICATION PROCESS; RADIOACTIVE CESIUMS; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RIVER WATER; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER PURIFICATION PLANTS; WATER PURIFICATION PROCESS;

COAGULATION;

CESIUM; CHLORINE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ACTIVATED CARBON; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHLORINATION; COAGULATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; IODINE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PURIFICATION; RADIONUCLIDE; TURBIDITY;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; EXPLOSION; FLOCCULATION; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEDIMENTATION; TURBIDITY; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER MANAGEMENT;

JAPAN;

EID: 84863540393     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.05.055     Document Type: Article

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