Relationship between the radiocesium interception potential and the transfer of radiocesium from soil to soybean cultivated in 2011 in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 137, Issue , 2014, Pages 119-124

  Takeda, Akira ^a   Tsukada, Hirofumi ^a,e   Yamaguchi, Noriko ^b   Takeuchi, Megumi ^c   Sato, Mutsuto ^c   Nakao, Atsushi ^d   Hisamatsu, Shun'ichi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Fukushima Agricultural Technology Center   (Japan)

^d KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Exchangeable K; RIP; Transfer factor

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; CONCENTRATION RANGES; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RIP; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL-TO-PLANT TRANSFER FACTORS; TRANSFER FACTOR;

CESIUM;

ALUMINUM; CARBON; CESIUM 137; IRON; ORGANIC MATTER; OXALIC ACID; POTASSIUM; SILICON; CESIUM; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POTASSIUM; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SOYBEAN;

ARTICLE; CATION EXCHANGE; CLAY; GRAIN; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RELATED PHENOMENA; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PHYTOAVAILABILITY; RADIOCESIUM INTERCEPTION POTENTIAL; SOIL; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TO PLANT TRANSFER FACTOR; SOYBEAN; ANALYSIS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; METABOLISM; RADIATION MONITORING; SEASON; SOIL POLLUTANT;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

CESIUM; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIATION MONITORING; SEASONS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SOYBEANS;

EID: 84904333539     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.06.022     Document Type: Article

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