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Sources of plutonium in the atmosphere and stratosphere-troposphere mixing

Plutonium isotopes have primarily been injected to the stratosphere by the atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and the burn-up of the SNAP-9A satellite. Here we show by using published data that the stratospheric plutonium exponentially decreased with apparent residence time of 1.5 ± 0.5 years, and tha...

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Autores principales: Hirose, Katsumi, Povinec, Pavel P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4623714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26508010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep15707