Novel insights into fukushima nuclear accident from isotopic evidence of plutonium spread along coastal rivers

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 9334-9340

  Evrard, Olivier ^a   Pointurier, Fabien ^b   Onda, Yuichi ^c   Chartin, Caroline ^d   Hubert, Amélie ^b   Lepage, Hugo ^a   Pottin, Anne Claire ^b   Lefèvre, Irène ^a   Bonté, Philippe ^a   Laceby, J Patrick ^a   Ayrault, Sophie ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALLOUT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR FUELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; PLUTONIUM ALLOYS; RADIOISOTOPES; RIVERS;

DEPOSITED SEDIMENTS; FUKUSHIMA ACCIDENTS; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES;

PLUTONIUM;

PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOISOTOPE; WATER POLLUTANT;

COASTAL ZONE; FALLOUT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RIVER; SAMPLE; SEDIMENT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PACIFIC OCEAN; RADIATION MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANT;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOISOTOPES; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84906218769     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501890n     Document Type: Article

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