Fukushimas forgotten radionuclides: A review of the understudied radioactive emissions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 4649-4663

  Steinhauser, Georg ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CESIUM; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; PLUTONIUM; RUTHENIUM; STRONTIUM; TECHNETIUM; URANIUM;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; ANTHROPOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; GEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; RADIOACTIVE EMISSIONS; VOLATILE ELEMENTS;

RADIOISOTOPES;

ACTINIDE; CARBON 14; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; CHLORINE 36; INERT GAS; IODINE 129; IODINE 131; KRYPTON 85; PLUTONIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; RUTHENIUM 106; STRONTIUM 89; STRONTIUM 90; SULFUR 35; TECHNETIUM 99M; TRITIUM; XENON 133;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EMISSION INVENTORY; IODINE; KRYPTON; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; TELLURIUM; TRACER; TRITIUM; XENON;

ATOMIC BOMB; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NUCLEAR REACTOR; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVITY; REVIEW; CHEMISTRY; HALF LIFE TIME; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANT;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HALF-LIFE; JAPAN; RADIOISOTOPES; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84899842731     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es405654c     Document Type: Review

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