Title of article
Coloured rain dust from Sahara Desert is still radioactive
Author/Authors
C. Papastefanou، نويسنده , , M. Manolopoulou، نويسنده , , S. Stoulos، نويسنده , , T. A. Ioannidou، نويسنده , , E. Gerasopoulos، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2001
Pages
4
From page
109
To page
112
Abstract
A coloured rain event originating from the Sahara Desert occurred on April 9, 2000 at Thessaloniki, Northern Greece (40°38′N, 22°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.
Keywords
Coloured rain dust , radioactivity , Sahara , Chernobyl , GREECE
Journal title
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
Serial Year
2001
Journal title
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
Record number
705962
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