Plutonium in Arctic Surface and Sub-Surface Waters at the St. Anna and Voronin Troughs

• Published in: Radiation Protection Dosimetry
• Main Authors: Mitchell, P.I., McMahon, C.A., León Vintró, L., Ryan, R.W.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1998
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Kara Sea; St. Anna Trough; Fram Strait
• Online Access: http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/75/1-4/247; https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032238

The St Anna Trough has been identified as a key region for water-mass exchange between the Arctic Shelf and the Central Arctic Ocean. Here, the results are presented of a recent study of 239,240Pu (and 238Pu) concentrations in filtered surface and sub-surface water collected along a latitudinal sect...