Oxidation-state distribution of plutonium in surface and subsurface waters at Thule, northwest Greenland

• Main Authors: C. A. Mcmahona, P. I. Mitchell A, H. Dahlgaardb
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Thule Air Base; Sea ice; Thule Air; Thule; Upernavik
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.601.2523; http://homepage.eircom.net/~radphys/thule2.pdf

The speciation of plutonium in Arctic waters sampled on the northwest Greenland shelf in August 1997 is discussed in this paper. Specifically, we report the results of analyses carried out on seawater sampled (a) close to the Thule air base where, in 1968, a US military aircraft carrying four nuclea...