Activity concentrations of environmental samples collected in Fukushima Prefecture immediately after the Fukushima nuclear accident

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hosoda, Masahiro ^a   Tokonami, Shinji ^a   Tazoe, Hirofumi ^a   Sorimachi, Atsuyuki ^a   Monzen, Satoru ^a   Osanai, Minoru ^a   Akata, Naofumi ^b   Kakiuchi, Hideki ^b   Omori, Yasutaka ^c   Ishikawa, Tetsuo ^c   Sahoo, Sarata K ^c   Kovács, Tibor ^d   Yamada, Masatoshi ^a   Nakata, Akifumi ^a   Yoshida, Mitsuaki ^a   Yoshino, Hironori ^a   Mariya, Yasushi ^a   Kashiwakura, Ikuo ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOISOTOPE; AIR POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; JAPAN; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPES; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84881344744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02283     Document Type: Article

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