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REVIEW: Exposing the US nuclear test legacy in the Marshall Islands
Pacific Journalism Review, 2006 The world's worst nuclear reactor accident occurred in late April 1986 at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people and millions of square miles of land were contaminated by radioactive fallout spewed from the reactor meltdown.
Giff Johnson
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, 2012 We report the activity measured in rainwater samples collected in the Greater Sudbury area of eastern Canada on 3, 16, 20, and 26 April 2011. The samples were gamma-ray counted in a germanium detector and the isotopes 131I and 137Cs, produced by the ...
Cleveland, B. T. +4 more
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Trace americium contamination sources in the environment can be detected using 243Am/241Am
Communications Earth & EnvironmentDespite the widespread presence of americium in the environment since the 1950s from nuclear activities, the use of americium isotopic composition to trace contamination sources has not been investigated.
Elena Chamizo +2 more
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Journal of Wood Science, 2021 The transfer factor (TF) of radioactive cesium-137 (137Cs) to shiitake (Lentinula edodes) cultivated on bed logs varies greatly. Therefore, the present study investigated which factors affect the TF using stable cesium-133 (133Cs) and sawdust medium with
Masakazu Hiraide
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, 2014 Citation: 'radioactive fallout' in the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed.; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. 10.1351/goldbook.R05085 • License: The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International for individual terms.
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Actinides, accelerators and erosion
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2012 Fallout isotopes can be used as artificial tracers of soil erosion and sediment accumulation. The most commonly used isotope to date has been 137Cs. Concentrations of 137Cs are, however, significantly lower in the Southern Hemisphere, and furthermore ...
Fifield L.K., Tims S.G.
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The Imperative for Nuclear Responsibility: Facing the Weapons Legacy in School [PDF]
, 1993 Nuclear industry\u27s pro-uranium mining campaign in Saskatchewan public ...
Regnier, Robert
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Consequences of the Chernobyl accident for reindeer husbandry in Sweden
Rangifer, 1990 Large parts of the reindeer hearding area in Sweden were contaminated with radioactive caesium from the Chernobyl fallout. During the first year after the accident no food with activity concentrations exceeding 300 Bq/kg was allowed to be sold in Sweden.
Gustaf Åhman +2 more
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GENERALIZATION OF FACTORS FOR THE INVOLVEMENT OF RADIONUCLIDES IN WATER MIGRATION
Геохімія техногенезу, 2020 This article supplements the previous publication on the principles of radioecological monitoring. It describes in more detail the procedure for the selection of factors affecting the mobilization (or remobilization) and aqueous removal of 90Sr.
Shevchenko O., Akinfiev G.
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An Airborne and Vehicular Gamma Survey of Greenham Common, Newbury District and Surrounding Areas [PDF]
, 1997 The airborne gamma ray survey recorded more than 40,000 scintillation spectra and 20,000 spectra from semiconductor detectors. The vehicular survey produced a further 1346 and 763 spectral sets respectively. The installation, calibration, recording and
Allyson, J.D. +4 more
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