Simulation of radioactive cesium transfer in the southern Fukushima coastal biota using a dynamic food chain transfer model

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 124, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-12

  Tateda, Yutaka ^a   Tsumune, Daisuke ^a   Tsubono, Takaki ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

137Cs; Coastal organism; Dynamic biological compartment model; Food chain transfer; Fukushima reactor accident

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL COMPARTMENTS; COASTAL ORGANISM; CONTAMINATION SOURCES; ECOLOGICAL HALF-LIVES; FOOD CHAIN; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE CESIUMS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENTS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DECONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; SEAWATER;

CESIUM;

CESIUM 137; RADIOISOTOPE;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FISH; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RADIONUCLIDE; SEAWATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOTA; COMPARTMENT MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; VERTEBRATE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

(137)CS; COASTAL ORGANISM; DYNAMIC BIOLOGICAL COMPARTMENT MODEL; FOOD CHAIN TRANSFER; FUKUSHIMA REACTOR ACCIDENT;

ANIMALS; BIOTA; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; INVERTEBRATES; JAPAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; RADIATION MONITORING; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84877127017     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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