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TY - JOUR
T1 - Behavior of urban dust contaminated by Chernobyl fallout: environmental half-lives and transfer coefficients.
AU - Allott, R. W.
AU - Kelly, M. R.
AU - Hewitt, CN
PY - 1992/11
Y1 - 1992/11
N2 - 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
AB - 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
KW - Atmospheric particle
KW - Urban area
KW - England
KW - Atmospheric fallout
KW - Radioactive fall out
KW - Air pollution
KW - Cesium Isotopes
KW - Pollutant behavior
KW - Accident
KW - Nuclear reactor
KW - Sampling
KW - Chemical analysis
KW - Great britain
KW - United Kingdom
KW - Europe
U2 - 10.1021/es00035a011
DO - 10.1021/es00035a011
M3 - Journal article
VL - 26
SP - 2142
EP - 2147
JO - Environmental Science and Technology
JF - Environmental Science and Technology
SN - 0013-936X
IS - 11
ER -