Release of Pu isotopes from the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant accident to the marine environment was negligible

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 9070-9078

  Bu, Wenting ^a,b   Fukuda, Miho ^a   Zheng, Jian ^a   Aono, Tatsuo ^a   Ishimaru, Takashi ^c   Kanda, Jota ^c   Yang, Guosheng ^a   Tagami, Keiko ^a   Uchida, Shigeo ^a   Guo, Qiuju ^b   Yamada, Masatoshi ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CESIUM; CONTAMINATION; DEPOSITION; FALLOUT; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; CLOSE-IN FALLOUTS; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENTS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ISOTOPES;

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; PLUTONIUM 241; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CESIUM; PLUTONIUM; SEA WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; RADIONUCLIDE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; FALLOUT; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SEDIMENT; ANALYSIS; RADIATION MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84906247383     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es502480y     Document Type: Article

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