Anthropogenic plutonium in the North Jiangsu tidal flats of the Yellow Sea in China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 6539-6551

  Liu, Zhiyong ^a,b,c   Zheng, Jian ^b   Pan, Shaoming ^a   Gao, Jianhua ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Pu isotopes; Sediments; SF ICP MS; Tidal flats; Yellow Sea

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; CLOSE-IN FALLOUTS; DOUBLE-FOCUSING SF-ICP-MS; SF-ICP-MS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TIDAL FLAT; YANGTZE RIVER ESTUARY; YELLOW SEA;

CESIUM; FALLOUT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PLUTONIUM ALLOYS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; WETLANDS;

TIDES;

CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEANIC CURRENT; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT CORE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHINA; CLAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; ESTUARY; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCEAN CURRENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SEA; SEDIMENT; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIDAL FLAT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA;

CHINA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

CHINA; JIANGSU; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 84879846144     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-3045-7     Document Type: Article

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