Overview of active cesium contamination of freshwater fish in Fukushima and Eastern Japan

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mizuno, Toshiaki ^a   Kubo, Hideya ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; FRESH WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FISH; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; JAPAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION MONITORING; RIVER; WATER POLLUTANT; ARTICLE;

ANIMALS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FISHES; FRESH WATER; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84877751060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01742     Document Type: Article

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