Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents: A review of the environmental impacts

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2014, Pages 800-817

  Steinhauser, Georg ^a   Brandl, Alexander ^a   Johnson, Thomas E ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Fukushima; Radioactivity; Radioecology; Radionuclide contamination; Socioeconomic effects of radiation

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INERT GASES; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHERNOBYL; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; FUKUSHIMA; FUKUSHIMA ACCIDENTS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RADIOECOLOGY; REFRACTORY ELEMENTS;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

ACTINIDE; ANTIMONY; ANTIMONY 125; BARIUM; BARIUM 140; CERIUM 144; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 136; CESIUM 137; EUROPIUM; EUROPIUM 154; INERT GAS; IODINE 129; IODINE 131; KRYPTON 85; MOLYBDENUM 99; NEPTUNIUM; NEPTUNIUM 239; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; RUTHENIUM 103; RUTHENIUM 106; STRONTIUM 89; STRONTIUM 90; TELLURIUM; TRITIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; XENON 133; ZIRCONIUM; ZIRCONIUM 95;

CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH IMPACT; NOBLE GAS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ANXIETY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; MORTALITY; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; UKRAINE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

CHERNOBYL; FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; KIEV [UKRAINE]; PACIFIC OCEAN; TOHOKU; UKRAINE;

CHERNOBYL; FUKUSHIMA; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOECOLOGY; RADIONUCLIDE CONTAMINATION; SOCIOECONOMIC EFFECTS OF RADIATION;

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 84887161004     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.029     Document Type: Review

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