Movement of radiocaesium fallout released by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident

Natural Hazards

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1843-1862

  Minoura, Koji ^a   Yamada, Tsutomu ^a   Hirano, Shin ichi ^a   Sugihara, Shinji ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 Fukushima nuclear accident; Decontamination; Hotspot; Seasonal precipitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905715222     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1171-y     Document Type: Article

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