Radionuclides from the Fukushima accident in the air over Lithuania: Measurement and modelling approaches

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 114, Issue , 2012, Pages 71-80

  Lujaniene, G ^a   Bycenkiene S ^a   Povinec, P P ^b   Gera, M ^b  

^a CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Caesium 134,137; Fukushima accident; Iodine 131; Plutonium 238,239+240

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ACTIVITY RATIOS; AEROSOL SAMPLES; AIR MASS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACKWARD TRAJECTORY; CAESIUM-134,137; CENTRAL EUROPE; CHERNOBYL; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; IODINE-131; LITHUANIA; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PLUTONIUM-238; RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATION; SMALL VARIATIONS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS;

AEROSOLS; IODINE; LEAD; METEOROLOGY; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPES; SPENT FUELS;

CESIUM;

BERYLLIUM 7; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; IODINE 131; LEAD 212; PLUTONIUM 238; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240;

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; IODINE; MASS TRANSPORT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); JAPAN; LITHUANIA; MEASUREMENT; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

AEROSOLS; AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; JAPAN; LITHUANIA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPES; UKRAINE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LITHUANIA; NORTH AMERICA; VILNIUS;

EID: 84866606147     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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