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Behavior of urban dust contaminated by Chernobyl fallout: environmental half-lives and transfer coefficients. / Allott, R. W.; Kelly, M. R.; Hewitt, CN.
In: Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 26, No. 11, 11.1992, p. 2142-2147.

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Allott, RW, Kelly, MR & Hewitt, CN 1992, 'Behavior of urban dust contaminated by Chernobyl fallout: environmental half-lives and transfer coefficients.', Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 2142-2147. https://doi.org/10.1021/es00035a011

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Allott, R. W., Kelly, M. R., & Hewitt, CN. (1992). Behavior of urban dust contaminated by Chernobyl fallout: environmental half-lives and transfer coefficients. Environmental Science and Technology, 26(11), 2142-2147. https://doi.org/10.1021/es00035a011

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Allott RW, Kelly MR, Hewitt CN. Behavior of urban dust contaminated by Chernobyl fallout: environmental half-lives and transfer coefficients. Environmental Science and Technology. 1992 Nov;26(11):2142-2147. doi: 10.1021/es00035a011

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Allott, R. W. ; Kelly, M. R. ; Hewitt, CN. / Behavior of urban dust contaminated by Chernobyl fallout: environmental half-lives and transfer coefficients. In: Environmental Science and Technology. 1992 ; Vol. 26, No. 11. pp. 2142-2147.

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abstract = "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",
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KW - Accident

KW - Nuclear reactor

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