135Cs/137Cs isotopic ratio as a new tracer of radiocesium released from the Fukushima nuclear accident

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5433-5438

  Zheng, Jian ^a   Tagami, Keiko ^a   Bu, Wenting ^a,b   Uchida, Shigeo ^a   Watanabe, Yoshito ^a   Kubota, Yoshihisa ^a   Fuma, Shoichi ^a   Ihara, Sadao ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; FISSION PRODUCTS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

ACTIVITY RATIOS; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; LONG-TERM ESTIMATION; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION; SPENT FUEL POOLS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CESIUM;

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 135; CESIUM 137; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CESIUM ISOTOPE; ELEMENT MOBILITY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; TRACER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; ISOTOPE RATIO; NONHUMAN; PLANT LITTER; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

CESIUM; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; LICHENS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84901049694     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es500403h     Document Type: Article

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