Estimation of Te-132 distribution in fukushima prefecture at the early stage of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactor failures

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5007-5012

  Tagami, Keiko ^a   Uchida, Shigeo ^a   Ishii, Nobuyoshi ^a   Zheng, Jian ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR MAP; CONVERSION FACTOR; DOSE CONTRIBUTION; EXCLUSION ZONES; FUKUSHIMA; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; T-TESTS;

ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

ESTIMATION;

TELLURIUM 129M; TELLURIUM 132; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTOUR MAP; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HALF LIFE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; SOIL POLLUTION; TELLURIUM;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HALF LIFE TIME; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL POLLUTION;

FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HALF-LIFE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TELLURIUM;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84878257529     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304730b     Document Type: Article

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