Radiostrontium in the western North Pacific: Characteristics, behavior, and the Fukushima impact

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 10356-10363

  Povinec, Pavel P ^a   Hirose, Katsumi ^b,c   Aoyama, Michio ^d  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; LONG-TERM SERIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RADIOACTIVE WASTEWATER; SURFACE SEAWATER; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

CESIUM; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATERS;

STRONTIUM;

CESIUM 137; SEA WATER; STRONTIUM 89; STRONTIUM 90; SURFACE WATER;

COASTAL WATER; HALF LIFE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIONUCLIDE; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PACIFIC OCEAN; WATER TREATMENT;

EARTHQUAKES; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TSUNAMIS; WATER POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); TOHOKU;

EID: 84866390915     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301997c     Document Type: Article

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