Distribution of local 137Cs anomalies on the seafloor near the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 344-350

  Thornton, Blair ^a   Ohnishi, Seiki ^b   Ura, Tamaki ^a,f   Odano, Naoteru ^b   Sasaki, Shun ^a   Fujita, Tsuneo ^c   Watanabe, Tomowo ^d   Nakata, Kaoru ^e   Ono, Tsuneo ^d   Ambe, Daisuke ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL MARITIME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Fukushima Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN FISHERIES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fukushima Dai ichi Nuclear Power Plant; Marine sediment; Radioactive cesium; Terrain features; Towed gamma ray spectrometer

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MARINE SEDIMENTS; RADIATION LEVELS; RADIOACTIVE CESIUMS; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; TERRAIN FEATURES;

GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SPECTROMETERS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

CESIUM;

CESIUM 137; CESIUM; WATER POLLUTANT;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TERRAIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER CONTENT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; JAPAN; WATER POLLUTANT; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; MARINE SEDIMENT; TERRAIN FEATURES; TOWED GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETER;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; JAPAN; RADIATION MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; MARINE SEDIMENT; RADIOACTIVE CESIUM; TERRAIN FEATURES; TOWED GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETER;

EID: 84884141004     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.06.031     Document Type: Article

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