Measurements and modeling of airborne plutonium in Subarctic Finland between 1965 and 2011

• Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Main Authors: Salminen-Paatero, Susanna, Vira, Julius, Paatero, Jussi
• Other Authors: Department of Chemistry
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GMBH 2020
• Subjects: Chemical sciences; Plutonium; atmospheric radioactivity; Chernobyl; Fukushima; radioecology; Subarctic Finland; ISOTOPE RATIOS; Rovaniemi; Northern Finland; Subarctic; Lapland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/316047

The activity concentrations of Pu-238,Pu-239,Pu-240 and Am-241 (for determining its mother nuclide, Pu-241) as well as activity ratios of Pu-238/Pu239+240, Pu-241/Pu239+240 and Pu239+240/Cs-137 and the mass ratio of Pu-240/Pu-239 were determined from air filter samples collected in Rovaniemi (Finnis...