Trench 'Bathtubbing' and surface plutonium contamination at a legacy radioactive waste site

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 13284-13293

  Payne, Timothy E ^a   Harrison, Jennifer J ^a   Hughes, Catherine E ^a   Johansen, Mathew P ^a   Thiruvoth, Sangeeth ^a   Wilsher, Kerry L ^a   Cendón, Dioni I ^a   Hankin, Stuart I ^a   Rowling, Brett ^a   Zawadzki, Atun ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL GROUNDS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; EXTREME RAINFALL; RADIONUCLIDE CONTENT; SAMPLING POINTS; SURFACE SOIL; SYDNEY , AUSTRALIA; WATER SAMPLING;

CONTAMINATION; DISPERSIONS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RAIN; SOILS; WATER LEVELS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RAIN; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE; SAMPLING; SOIL POLLUTION; TRENCH; WATER LEVEL;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DISPERSION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOACTIVITY; SOIL; SURFACE SOIL; WATER SAMPLING; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE; PROCEDURES; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HAZARDOUS WASTE SITES; NEW SOUTH WALES; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84889835883     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es403278r     Document Type: Article

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