Assessment of dry and wet atmospheric deposits of radioactive aerosols: Application to Fukushima radiocaesium fallout

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 11268-11276

  Gonze, Marc André ^a   Renaud, Philippe ^a   Korsakissok, Irène ^a   Kato, Hiroaki ^b   Hinton, Thomas G ^a   Mourlon, Christophe ^a   Simon Cornu, Marie ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITS; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; GAMMA RAYS; ISOTOPES; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOACTIVITY; SURVEYS;

AEROSOL DEPOSITION; AIRBORNE MONITORING; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITS; ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY; RADIOACTIVE AEROSOLS; RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES; SITU GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETRIES;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTANT; CESIUM;

AEROSOL; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CESIUM ISOTOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; DRY DEPOSITION; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; VELOCITY; WET DEPOSITION; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; JAPAN; PROCEDURES;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; ATMOSPHERE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; RADIATION MONITORING; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 84907942691     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es502590s     Document Type: Article

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