Iodine isotopes in precipitation: Temporal responses to 129I emissions from the fukushima nuclear accident

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 10851-10859

  Xu, Sheng ^a   Freeman, Stewart P H T ^a   Hou, Xiaolin ^b   Watanabe, Akira ^c   Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko ^c   Zhang, Luyuan ^b  

^a SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PRECIPITATION SAMPLES; RADIOACTIVE PLUME; TEMPORAL RESPONSE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ACCIDENTS; ISOTOPES; RADIOACTIVITY;

IODINE;

IODINE 129; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION INVENTORY; HALF LIFE; IODIDE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RESUSPENSION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENMARK; EUROPE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HALF LIFE TIME; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PLUME DISPERSION; PRECIPITATION; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; SOIL ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS;

EUROPE; FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; DENMARK; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; JAPAN; RADIATION MONITORING; RAIN; SNOW;

EID: 84885104999     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es401527q     Document Type: Article

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