Predicted spatio-temporal dynamics of radiocesium deposited onto forests following the Fukushima nuclear accident

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hashimoto, Shoji ^a   Matsuura, Toshiya ^a   Nanko, Kazuki ^a   Linkov, Igor ^b   Shaw, George ^c   Kaneko, Shinji ^a  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREE; ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREES;

EID: 84884261362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02564     Document Type: Article

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