Ecological half-lives of radiocesium in 16 species in marine biota after the TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 7696-7703

  Iwata, Kayoko ^a   Tagami, Keiko ^a   Uchida, Shigeo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

BROWN SEAWEED; COMMON SPECIES; CONCENTRATION TRENDS; ECOLOGICAL FACTORS; ECOLOGICAL HALF-LIVES; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; MARINE SPECIES;

CESIUM;

CESIUM 137; SEA WATER; CESIUM;

AQUATIC ORGANISM; CESIUM ISOTOPE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; SEAWATER; SEAWEED; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; HALF LIFE TIME; JAPAN; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; MARINE BIOLOGY; METABOLISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HALF-LIFE; JAPAN; MARINE BIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84880521548     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400491b     Document Type: Article

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