Monitoring of atmospheric radionuclides from the Fukushima nuclear accident and assessing their impact on Xi'an, China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1585-1591

  Liu, LongBo ^a   Wu, Shan ^a   Cao, JunJi ^b   Xie, Feng ^a   Shi, QuanLin ^a   Zhang, ChangYun ^a   Tang, HanBing ^a   He, XiaoBin ^a   Zhang, Rong ^b   Chen, LiYun ^a   Wei, GuanYi ^a   Zhang, ZhiHong ^a   Zhang, JiaMei ^a   Dang, HaiJun ^a  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

atmospheric radiation monitoring; Fukushima nuclear accident; radionuclides; transport pathways; xenon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877050284     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5521-4     Document Type: Article

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