Analysis of Radionuclide Releases from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident Part II

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 171, Issue 3-5, 2014, Pages 645-667

  Achim, Pascal ^a   Monfort, Marguerite ^a   Le Petit, Gilbert ^a   Gross, Philippe ^a   Douysset, Guilhem ^a   Taffary, Thomas ^a   Blanchard, Xavier ^a   Moulin, Christophe ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

Author keywords

atmospheric transport modeling; Cs 137; CTBTO; Fukushima Dai ichi accident; I 131; source terms evaluation; Xe 133

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CORE MELTDOWN; FISSION PRODUCTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RADIOISOTOPES;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT MODEL; CS-137; CTBTO; FUKUSHIMA; I-131; SOURCE TERMS; XE-133;

CESIUM;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EMISSION INVENTORY; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; MODELING; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIONUCLIDE;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84895895676     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-012-0578-1     Document Type: Article

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