Iodine-129 in seawater offshore fukushima: Distribution, inorganic speciation, sources, and budget

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3091-3098

  Hou, Xiaolin ^a,b   Povinec, Pavel P ^c   Zhang, Luyuan ^a   Shi, Keliang ^a   Biddulph, Dana ^d,h   Chang, Ching Chih ^d,h   Fan, Yukun ^b   Golser, Robin ^e   Hou, Yingkun ^f   Ješkovský, Miroslav ^c,e   Jull, A J Tim ^d,h   Liu, Qi ^b   Luo, Maoyi ^a,g   Steier, Peter ^e   Zhou, Weijian ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUKUSHIMA ACCIDENTS; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; GEOCHEMICAL CYCLES; INORGANIC SPECIATION; LONG-LIVED RADIONUCLIDES; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; WATER CIRCULATION;

ACCIDENTS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; POLLUTION; SEAWATER;

IODINE;

CESIUM 137; IODATE; IODIDE; IODINE 129; IODINE 131; SEA WATER;

GEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; IODINE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; SEAWATER; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; FALLOUT; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SEA POLLUTION; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SEASHORE; WATER CYCLE;

FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; IODINE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIATION MONITORING; SEAWATER;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84875802694     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304460k     Document Type: Article

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