Application of TREECS Modeling System to Strontium-90 for Borschi Watershed near Chernobyl, Ukraine

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 131, Issue , 2014, Pages 31-39

  Johnson, Billy E ^a   Dortch, Mark S ^b  

^a U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^b Sub Contractor to Los Alamos Technical Associates (LATA) Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

90Sr; Borschi; Chernobyl; Contaminant fate and transport; Radioactive modeling; TREECS

Indexed keywords

BORSCHI; CHERNOBYL; DISTRIBUTION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIALISTS; FATE AND TRANSPORT; SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATERS; TREECS;

FORECASTING; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY ENGINEERING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SOILS; STRONTIUM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATERSHEDS;

SURFACE WATERS;

SOIL WATER; STRONTIUM 90; SURFACE WATER;

CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DISSOLUTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; PRECIPITATION; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SEDIMENT; SOIL; UKRAINE; VOLATILIZATION; WATERSHED;

UKRAINE;

(90)SR; BORSCHI; CHERNOBYL; CONTAMINANT FATE AND TRANSPORT; RADIOACTIVE MODELING; TREECS;

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; STRONTIUM; UKRAINE; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84896698461     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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