Environmental Radiocesium in Subarctic and Arctic Alaska Following Chernobyl
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Environmental Radiocesium in Subarctic and Arctic Alaska Following Chernobyl
Radiocesium ('34Cs and '37Cs) concentrations were measured in soil, plant and wildlife samples from subarctic to arctic Alaska. Concentrations of 13'Cs ranged from below detectable or low levels in whale and fish samples to as high as 242 Bqkg in lichen. For all potential human food items, the radiocesium concentrations measured in this study were below accepted permissible levels for human con...
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عنوان ژورنال: ARCTIC
سال: 1991
ISSN: 1923-1245,0004-0843
DOI: 10.14430/arctic1557