Isotopic compositions of 236U and Pu isotopes in "black substances" collected from roadsides in Fukushima prefecture: Fallout from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant accident

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3691-3697

  Sakaguchi, Aya ^a   Steier, Peter ^b   Takahashi, Yoshio ^a   Yamamoto, Masayoshi ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; FUELS; ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; REFRACTORY MATERIALS;

ACTIVITY RATIOS; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; REFRACTORY ELEMENTS; ROAD DUSTS; TRACE AMOUNTS;

URANIUM;

CESIUM 131; CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM; URANIUM 236;

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FALLOUT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FALLOUT; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; SOIL ANALYSIS;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; DUST; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SOIL; URANIUM; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84897544656     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es405294s     Document Type: Article

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