Environmental mobility of 110mAg: Lessons learnt from Fukushima accident (Japan) and potential use for tracking the dispersion of contamination within coastal catchments

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-55

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

^a DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Depth distribution; Fukushima; Nuclear accident; Radiocesium; Radiosilver; Sediment

Indexed keywords

DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; FUKUSHIMA; NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; RADIOCESIUM; RADIOSILVER;

CATCHMENTS; CESIUM; DEPOSITION; DISPERSIONS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOISOTOPES; RUNOFF; SILVER; SOILS;

SEDIMENTS;

CESIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; SILVER; SILVER 110 METASTABLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOACCUMULATION; CESIUM ISOTOPE; COASTAL ZONE; DISPERSION; ELEMENT MOBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SILVER; TRACKING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PLUME; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; FUKUSHIMA; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIOCESIUM; RADIOSILVER; SEDIMENT;

FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; JAPAN; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPES; SILVER; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84892494963     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.12.011     Document Type: Article

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