Studies of environmental radioactivity in Cumbria
Description
Soil samples have been taken by a simple coring technique from 69 sites along the coast of the Solway Firth (southwest Scotland), Cumbria and Morecambe Bay (northwest England), and from 40 sites along four transects running inland from the Cumbrian coast at Nethertown, Eskdale, Bootle and Kirkby. The samples were analysed for 137Cs, 238Pu, sup(239+240)Pu and, in a few cases, 241Am. This preliminary survey was conducted as part of a study of environmental radioactivity in Cumbria to look for the presence of deposited radioactivity which could not be accounted for by accumulated nuclear weapon fallout, but which could have originated from British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., Windscale. (author)
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Additional details
Additional titles
- Subtitle (English)
- Pt.2. Radionuclide deposits in soil in the coastal region of Cumbria
Publishing Information
- ISBN
- 0-70-580534-4
- Imprint Pagination
- 38 p.
- Report number
- AERE-R--9873
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 13647525
- Subject category
- S58: GEOSCIENCES;
- Descriptors DEI
- AMERICIUM 241; CESIUM 137; DEPOSITS; ENVIRONMENT; PLUTONIUM 238; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVITY; SHORES; SOILS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNITED KINGDOM
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; AMERICIUM ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CESIUM ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTION; EUROPE; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HEAVY NUCLEI; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES; RADIOISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES