Tritium in Japanese precipitation following the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 445-446, Issue , 2013, Pages 365-370

  Matsumoto, Takuya ^a   Maruoka, Teruyuki ^b   Shimoda, Gen ^c   Obata, Hajime ^d   Kagi, Hiroyuki ^d   Suzuki, Katsuhiko ^e   Yamamoto, Koshi ^f   Mitsuguchi, Takehiro ^g,i   Hagino, Kyoko ^h   Tomioka, Naotaka ^h   Sambandam, Chinmaya ^a   Brummer, Daniela ^a   Klaus, Philipp Martin ^a   Aggarwal, Pradeep ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g not available   (Japan)

^h OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fukushima; Hydrology; Radionuclide; Tritium

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; POTABLE WATER; RADIOISOTOPES; TRITIUM;

FUKUSHIMA; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI; NUCLEAR PLANT; PRECIPITATION SAMPLES; REGULATORY LIMIT; TRITIUM ACTIVITY; TRITIUM CONCENTRATION;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

DRINKING WATER; RAIN; TRITIUM;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDROLOGY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RADIONUCLIDE; RAINWATER; TRITIUM;

AIR MONITORING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; JAPANESE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; WATER QUALITY;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84872923933     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.12.069     Document Type: Article

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