Airborne plutonium and non-natural uranium from the Fukushima DNPP found at 120 km distance a few days after reactor hydrogen explosions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3808-3814

  Shinonaga, Taeko ^a   Steier, Peter ^b   Lagos, Markus ^c   Ohkura, Takehisa ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Department of Radiation Protection Nuclear Science Research Institute Tokai Research and Development Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATOMS; CESIUM; HYDROGEN; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; URANIUM;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; AEROSOL SAMPLES; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; DESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES (ICPMS);

PLUTONIUM;

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; HYDROGEN; PLUTONIUM; URANIUM;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR SAMPLING; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HYDROGEN; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

AEROSOL; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EXPLOSION; FALLOUT; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; WIND;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

ADULT; AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; EXPLOSIONS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOMETRY; URANIUM; WIND;

EID: 84897546215     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es404961w     Document Type: Article

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