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Modelling and measurement of the dispersion of radioactive emissions from a nuclear fuel fabrication plant in the U.K. / Al-Khayat, T. A. H.; van Eygen, B.; Hewitt, CN et al.
In: Atmospheric Environment: Part A - General Topics, Vol. 26, No. 17, 1992, p. 3079-3087.

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Al-Khayat, TAH, van Eygen, B, Hewitt, CN & Kelly, MR 1992, 'Modelling and measurement of the dispersion of radioactive emissions from a nuclear fuel fabrication plant in the U.K.', Atmospheric Environment: Part A - General Topics, vol. 26, no. 17, pp. 3079-3087. https://doi.org/10.1016/0960-1686(92)90464-V

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Al-Khayat, T. A. H., van Eygen, B., Hewitt, CN., & Kelly, M. R. (1992). Modelling and measurement of the dispersion of radioactive emissions from a nuclear fuel fabrication plant in the U.K. Atmospheric Environment: Part A - General Topics, 26(17), 3079-3087. https://doi.org/10.1016/0960-1686(92)90464-V

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Al-Khayat TAH, van Eygen B, Hewitt CN, Kelly MR. Modelling and measurement of the dispersion of radioactive emissions from a nuclear fuel fabrication plant in the U.K. Atmospheric Environment: Part A - General Topics. 1992;26(17):3079-3087. doi: 10.1016/0960-1686(92)90464-V

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Al-Khayat, T. A. H. ; van Eygen, B. ; Hewitt, CN et al. / Modelling and measurement of the dispersion of radioactive emissions from a nuclear fuel fabrication plant in the U.K. In: Atmospheric Environment: Part A - General Topics. 1992 ; Vol. 26, No. 17. pp. 3079-3087.

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abstract = "The ground-level air concentrations of supported and total 234Th were determined over a period of 1 year at four sites in the vicinity of a nuclear fuel fabrication plant in northwest England. Both supported and unsupported 234Th were found, with mean monthly concentrations of total 234Th 13 times those observed at a control site 50 km north of the factory. Bulk deposition rates of total 234Th were found to be 2–3 times the background values. Analysis of mosses revealed a systematic decrease in supported 234Th concentrations with distance from the factory, with background values reached at a distance of about 1.5 km. Road dust samples showed a similar decrease in supported 234Th concentrations with distance, but with significant departures from this trend, possibly being evidence for the mechanical transport of contaminated dust from the factory. A Gaussian plume dispersion model was able to predict 85% of the observed air concentrations within a factor of four, despite large uncertainties in some source parameters.",
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