Radiocesium contaminations of 20 wood species and the corresponding gamma-ray dose rates around the canopies at 5 months after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 115, Issue , 2013, Pages 60-68

  Yoshihara, Toshihiro ^a   Matsumura, Hideyuki ^a   Hashida, Shin Nosuke ^a   Nagaoka, Toru ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deciduous species; Evergreen species; Fukushima; NPP; Radiocesium; Woody plants

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS SPECIES; EVERGREEN SPECIES; FUKUSHIMA; NPP; RADIOCESIUM; WOODY PLANTS;

ACCIDENTS; CESIUM; FALLOUT; GAMMA RAYS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137;

BIOACCUMULATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EVERGREEN TREE; FALLOUT; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; GROWTH RATE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; WOODY PLANT;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CANOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FALLOUT; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PREDICTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SAMPLING; WOODY PLANT;

ANGIOSPERMS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GAMMA RAYS; GYMNOSPERMS; JAPAN; PLANT LEAVES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; WOOD;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84864550804     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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