Allott, R. W. and Kelly, M. R. and Hewitt, CN (1992) Behavior of urban dust contaminated by Chernobyl fallout: environmental half-lives and transfer coefficients. Environmental Science & Technology, 26 (11). pp. 2142-2147. ISSN 0013-936X
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This study has made use of the contamination of dusts in an urban area in Northwest England by Chernobyl-derived 137Cs to investigate the behavior of urban dusts, in order that contamination levels may be predicted following a pollution episode. The dust activity concentrations were observed to decline exponentially for a variety of indoor and outdoor dust reservoirs. Environmental half-lives were calculated to describe this behavior. Transfer coefficients were also derived from the ratio of outdoor to indoor dust activity concentrations
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Environmental Science & Technology |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Atmospheric particle ; Urban area ; England ; Atmospheric fallout ; Radioactive fall out ; Air pollution ; Cesium Isotopes ; Pollutant behavior ; Accident ; Nuclear reactor ; Sampling ; Chemical analysis ; Great britain ; United Kingdom ; Europe |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre |
| ID Code: | 22731 |
| Deposited By: | ep_ss_importer |
| Deposited On: | 14 Jan 2009 16:43 |
| Refereed?: | No |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 16:05 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22731 |
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