Retention of potentially mobile radiocesium in forest surface soils affected by the fukushima nuclear accident

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Koarashi, Jun ^a   Moriya, Koichi ^a,b   Atarashi Andoh, Mariko ^a   Matsunaga, Takeshi ^a   Fujita, Hiroki ^a   Nagaoka, Mika ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; TREE;

BIOMASS; CESIUM; CESIUM ISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; JAPAN; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TREES;

EID: 84871877120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01005     Document Type: Article

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