Concentration of 3H in plants around Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kakiuchi, Hideki ^a   Akata, Naofumi ^a   Hasegawa, Hidenao ^a   Ueda, Shinji ^a   Tokonami, Shinji ^b   Yamada, Masatoshi ^b   Hosoda, Masahiro ^b   Sorimachi, Atsuyuki ^b   Tazoe, Hirofumi ^b   Noda, Kaori ^b   Hisamatsu, Shun'Ichi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84871780526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00947     Document Type: Article

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