Sedimentation and remobilization of radiocesium in the coastal area of Ibaraki, 70 km south of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 5419-5433

  Otosaka, Shigeyoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Takuya ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coastal area; Fukushima Dai ichi nuclear power plant; Radiocesium; Redistribution; Seabed sediment

Indexed keywords

COASTAL AREA; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOCESIUM; REDISTRIBUTION; SEABED SEDIMENTS;

CESIUM; COASTAL ZONES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TURBIDITY;

SEDIMENTS;

CESIUM 137;

CESIUM; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GRAIN SIZE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIONUCLIDE; REMOBILIZATION; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GRAIN; JAPAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENTATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TURBIDITY;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; IBARAKI; JAPAN; KANTO; TOHOKU;

EID: 84878738058     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2956-7     Document Type: Article

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