137Cs in irrigation water and its effect on paddy fields in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear accident

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 481, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 252-259

  Yoshikawa, Natsuki ^a   Obara, Hitomi ^b   Ogasa, Marie ^a   Miyazu, Susumu ^a   Harada, Naoki ^a   Nonaka, Masanori ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Airport Department Infrastructure and Industrial Development Division Oriental Consultants Global Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant; Irrigation water; Radiocesium; River water; Sequential extraction procedure; Soil

Indexed keywords

FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; IRRIGATION WATERS; RADIOCESIUM; RIVER WATER; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION PROCEDURE;

ACCIDENTS; CATCHMENTS; IRRIGATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; POSITIVE IONS; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SOILS; STORMS; WATER;

CESIUM;

CESIUM 137; CESIUM; RIVER WATER;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; EXTRACTION METHOD; IRRIGATION; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PADDY FIELD; RIVER WATER; SOIL POLLUTION; STREAMWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIOAVAILABILITY; CATCHMENT; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FIELD FLOW FRACTIONATION; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; SOIL; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; STREAM (RIVER); WATER FLOW; WATER LOADING; WATER SAMPLING; AGRICULTURE; FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; IRRIGATION WATER; RADIATION MONITORING; RICE; SOIL POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; IRRIGATION WATER; RADIOCESIUM; RIVER WATER; SEQUENTIAL EXTRACTION PROCEDURE; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; JAPAN; ORYZA SATIVA; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84896879589     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.01.129     Document Type: Article

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