Exposure of a herbivorous fish to 134Cs and 137Cs from the riverbed following the Fukushima disaster

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 141, Issue , 2015, Pages 32-37

  Tsuboi, Jun ichi ^a   Abe, Shin ichiro ^b   Fujimoto, Ken ^c   Kaeriyama, Hideki ^c   Ambe, Daisuke ^c   Matsuda, Keishi ^a   Enomoto, Masahiro ^d   Tomiya, Atsushi ^d   Morita, Takami ^c   Ono, Tsuneo ^c   Yamamoto, Shoichiro ^a   Iguchi, Kei'ichiro ^e  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Fukushima Prefectural Freshwater Fisheries Experimental Station   (Japan)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ayu; Bioaccumulation; Nuclear accident; Radioactive cesium; Radioecology; Soil contamination

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTAMINATION; FISH; MUSCLE; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RADIOISOTOPES; SILT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODELS; NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RADIOACTIVE CESIUMS; RADIOECOLOGY; SOIL CONTAMINATION;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; CESIUM; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOACCUMULATION; CESIUM ISOTOPE; HERBIVORE; IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; RIVER BED; SOIL POLLUTION; TELEOST;

ALGA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BODY SIZE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FALLOUT; FISH; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HERBIVORE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PLECOGLOSSUS ALTIVELIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RIVER; SOIL; SUMMER; WATERSHED; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; JAPAN; METABOLISM; OSMERIFORMES; RADIATION MONITORING; SEDIMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANT;

FUKUSHIMA [TOHOKU];

ALGAE; PLECOGLOSSUS ALTIVELIS;

ANIMALS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; JAPAN; OSMERIFORMES; RADIATION MONITORING; RIVERS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84916899369     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2014.11.012     Document Type: Article

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