Overview of rehabilitation schemes for farmlands contaminated with radioactive cesium released from Fukushima power plant

Engineering Geology

Volumn 155, Issue , 2013, Pages 87-93

  Nakano, Masashi ^a   Yong, Raymond N ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Buried landfill; Contamination; Embedment; Radioactive cesium; Rehabilitation; Soil

Indexed keywords

BURIED-LANDFILL; CONTAMINATED AREAS; CONTAMINATED SOILS; EMBEDMENT; PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE; RADIOACTIVE CESIUMS; TWO-STEP PROCEDURE; VOLUME REDUCTIONS;

CESIUM; CONTAMINATION; FARMS; LAND FILL; PATIENT REHABILITATION; RADIATION DECONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SOILS; TOOLS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CESIUM ISOTOPE; FALLOUT; LANDFILL; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL REMEDIATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84875387349     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2012.12.010     Document Type: Article

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