Evolution of radioactive dose rates in fresh sediment deposits along coastal rivers draining Fukushima contamination plume

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Evrard, Olivier ^a   Chartin, Caroline ^a   Onda, Yuichi ^b   Patin, Jeremy ^b   Lepage, Hugo ^a   Lefèvre, Irène ^a   Ayrault, Sophie ^a   Ottlé, Catherine ^a   Bonté, Philippe ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLLUTANT; RADIOISOTOPE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

CHEMISTRY; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; POLLUTANT; RADIATION MONITORING; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTANT;

FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; JAPAN; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RADIOISOTOPES; RIVERS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84887098986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03079     Document Type: Article

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