Size distributions of airborne radionuclides from the fukushima nuclear accident at several places in europe

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 10995-11003

  Masson, Olivier ^a   Ringer, Wolfgang ^b   Malá, Helena ^c   Rulik, Petr ^c   Dlugosz Lisiecka, Magdalena ^d   Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos ^e   Meisenberg, Olivier ^f   De Vismes Ott, Anne ^a   Gensdarmes, François ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^c NATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e Biomolecular Physics Laboratory   (Greece)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION MODES; ANTHROPOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; GEOMETRIC STANDARD DEVIATIONS; MEDIAN AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; NATURALLY-OCCURRING RADIONUCLIDES; WEATHERING CONDITIONS;

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSOLS; CESIUM; GAS ADSORPTION; IODINE; LEAD; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADIOISOTOPES;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

ACTINIUM 228; BERYLLIUM 7; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; IODINE 131; LEAD 210; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIUM 224; THORIUM 234; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AERODYNAMICS; AIR MASS; AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CESIUM ISOTOPE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIONUCLIDE; RESUSPENSION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

ADSORPTION; AEROSOL; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CZECH REPUBLIC; EUROPE; FRANCE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GERMANY; GREECE; PARTICLE SIZE; POLAND;

CZECH REPUBLIC; FRANCE; FUKUSHIMA; GERMANY; GREECE; HONSHU; JAPAN; POLAND; TOHOKU;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; EUROPE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION MONITORING;

EID: 84885098045     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es401973c     Document Type: Article

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