Radiocesium contamination of lake sediments and fish following the Fukushima nuclear accident and their partition coefficient

Inland Waters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 204-214

  Fukushima, Takehiko ^a   Arai, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fish; Lake characteristics; Partition coefficient; Radiocesium; Sediments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987870681     PISSN: 20442041     EISSN: 2044205X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5268/IW-4.2.689     Document Type: Article

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