Soil removal as a decontamination practice and radiocesium accumulation in tadpoles in rice paddies at Fukushima

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 187, Issue , 2014, Pages 112-115

  Sakai, Masaru ^a   Gomi, Takashi ^a   Nunokawa, Masanori ^b   Wakahara, Taeko ^a   Onda, Yuichi ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agricultural field; Nuclear power plant; Radiation contamination; Rana (Pelophylax) porosa poros; Wetland

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; DRY WEIGHT; FUKUSHIMA; RADIOCESIUM; RANA (PELOPHYLAX) POROSA POROS; RICE PADDY; SOIL REMOVAL; SURFACE SOIL;

CESIUM; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DECONTAMINATION; SOILS; WETLANDS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CESIUM; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137;

BIOACCUMULATION; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FROG; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PADDY FIELD; SOIL POLLUTION; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; RICE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE SOIL; TADPOLE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

AGRICULTURAL FIELD; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION CONTAMINATION; RANA (PELOPHYLAX) POROSA POROS; WETLAND;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DECONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; JAPAN; LARVA; ORYZA SATIVA; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84893043401     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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