Depth distribution of cesium-137 in paddy fields across the Fukushima pollution plume in 2013

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 147, Issue , 2015, Pages 157-164

  Lepage, Hugo ^a   Evrard, Olivier ^a   Onda, Yuichi ^b   Lefèvre, Irène ^a   Laceby, J Patrick ^a   Ayrault, Sophie ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cesium 137; Depth distribution; Soil core

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; CESIUM; EROSION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION DECONTAMINATION; RAIN; SOILS;

CESIUM 137; CONTAMINATED MATERIALS; CUMULATIVE RAINFALL; DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINANTS; RADIONUCLIDE ACTIVITY; SOIL CORES;

SOIL POLLUTION;

CESIUM 137; RAIN; CESIUM; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

EROSION CONTROL; HEALTH RISK; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PADDY FIELD; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIONUCLIDE; RICE; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL SURFACE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CROPLAND; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GRASS; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; MIGRATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PARTICLE SIZE; PLUME; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; RICE PADDY FIELD; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL EROSION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL PROPERTY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE SOIL; TILLAGE; VEGETATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; JAPAN; ORYZA; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

FUKUSHIMA [TOHOKU]; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

AGRICULTURE; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; JAPAN; ORYZA; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 84937164004     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.05.003     Document Type: Article

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