Radiocesium discharge from paddy fields with different initial scrapings for decontamination after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2580-2591

  Wakahara, Taeko ^a   Onda, Yuich ^b   Kato, Hiroaki ^b   Sakaguchi, Aya ^b   Yoshimura, Kazuya ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; CESIUM 137; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; RATING SCALE; SURFACE SOIL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIATION MONITORING; RICE; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DECONTAMINATION; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; ORYZA SATIVA; RADIATION MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84908207945     PISSN: 20507887     EISSN: 20507895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4em00262h     Document Type: Article

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