Plutonium Isotope Ratios in the Yenisey and Ob Estuaries

• Main Authors: Skipperud, Lindis, Oughton, D, Fifield, L Keith, Lind, O, Tims, Stephen, Brown, Judith Elizabeth, Sickel, Morten
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd 2015
• Subjects: Keywords: Environmental impact; Estuaries; Nuclear industry; Radioisotopes; Atmospheric weapons testing; Isotope ratio measurements; Plutonium; plutonium 239; plutonium 240; Arctic; article; concentration (parameters); estuary; isotope analysis; pollution; priority Accelerator mass spectrometry; Isotope ratios; Source identification; Kara Sea; Yenisey
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/75914

Over the past 50 years, nuclear weapons' tests and releases from the nuclear industry have introduced anthropogenic plutonium into the environment. In the Arctic environment, the main source of plutonium is from the atmospheric weapons testing, but previous studies of plutonium in the Kara Sea...