Literature DB >> 11381550

Coloured rain dust from Sahara Desert is still radioactive.

C Papastefanou1, M Manolopoulou, S Stoulos, A Ioannidou, E Gerasopoulos.   

Abstract

A coloured rain event originating from the Sahara Desert occurred on April 9, 2000 at Thessaloniki, Northern Greece (40 degrees 38'N, 22 degrees 58'E). The radioactive nuclides that were determined in a coloured rain dust sample were 137Cs of Chernobyl origin, 7Be of cosmogenic origin and 40K of terrestrial origin. Cesium-137 still remained 14 years after the Chernobyl accident, reaching 26.6 Bq kg-1 in the coloured rain dust.

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Year:  2001        PMID： 11381550     DOI： 10.1016/s0265-931x(00)00182-x

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Environ Radioact        ISSN： 0265-931X            Impact factor:   2.674


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