Model assessment of additional contamination of water bodies as a result of wildfires in the Chernobyl exclusion zone

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 138, Issue , 2014, Pages 170-176

  Bondar, Yu I ^a   Navumau, A D ^b   Nikitin, A N ^b   Brown, J ^c,d   Dowdall, M ^c  

^a Polessie State Radiation Ecological Reserve   (Belarus)

^b Inst Radiobiologii   (Belarus)

^c NORWEGIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AUTHORITY   (Norway)

^d Centre for Environmental Radioactivity   (Norway)

Author keywords

Belarus; Chernobyl; Deposition; Forest fire; Modelling

Indexed keywords

MODELS;

BELARUS; CHERNOBYL; CHERNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE; FOREST FIRES; MODEL ASSESSMENT; WATERBODIES;

DEPOSITION;

CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOACTIVE AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; CESIUM; PLUTONIUM; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CLIMATE; ENTROPY; FIRE; FOREST; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOIL; WATER POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; BELARUS; RADIATION MONITORING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; CESIUM; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FIRES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION MONITORING; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84907272885     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.08.018     Document Type: Article

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