Sediment and 137Cs transport and accumulation in the Ogaki Dam of eastern Fukushima

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Yamada, Susumu ^a   Kitamura, Akihiro ^a   Kurikami, Hiroshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Masaaki ^a   Malins, Alex ^a   Machida, Masahiko ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cesium; contamination; dams; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant; sediment

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CESIUM; CONTAMINATION; DAMS; DEPOSITS; FALLOUT; FLOODS; MONITORING; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RADIOACTIVITY; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS; SILT; WATERSHEDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FIELD MONITORING DATA; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENTS; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE CESIUMS; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT GRAIN SIZE; WATERSHED SIMULATION;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ACCUMULATION; CESIUM; DAM; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FALLOUT; GRAIN SIZE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOACTIVITY; RESERVOIR; RIVER BASIN; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

CHUBU; FUKUSHIMA [TOHOKU]; GIFU; HONSHU; JAPAN; OGAKI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84921746229     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/1/014013     Document Type: Article

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