Atmosphere radioactivity

Ikebe. Y., M. Shimo, and T. Iida, A study on the Behavior of Atmospheric Radioactive Aerosols in Facilities, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya(1979) (in Japanese). 

Nevissi, A., Beck, J. N., and Kuroda, P. K., Long lived radon dauqhters as atmospheric radioactive tracers. Health Phys. 27, 181-188 (1974). 

Reiter, R., Fields, Currents and Aerosols in the Lower Troposphere, Chpt. 5, Atmospheric Radioactivity... 

Lockhart, L. (1960). Atmospheric radioactivity in South America and Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, 65, 3999-4005. 

Machta, L., Some aspects of the USA fallout programme. Meteorological aspects of atmospheric radioactivity. World Meteorological Organisation, Geneva, Tech. Note No. 68, pp. 155-177 (1965). 

Baurlat, Y., Millies-Lacroix, J.-C., Dunoyer, B., Plutonium-239,240 atmospheric radioactivity measurements at Mururoa from 1986 to 1991. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem., 177 (1994) 107-120. 

Dclwiche, C.C., 1958. Weathering of great world soil groups as related to general atmospheric radioactivity. In Waste Treatment and Environmental Aspects of Atomic Energy, 18 551-556. 

Uses existing atmospheric radioactive fallout as a tracer of opportunity. 

Furthermore it seems appropriate not to discuss radioactive materials here, but to leave them to a separate volume. The atmospheric fate of radioactive aerosols and gases is similar in some respects to that of other trace substances (e.g. dry and wet removal). However, the presentation of their formation and decay would render the present volume too diffuse. Thus, results gained by radioactive tracers will only be mentioned in Chapter 5 dealing with the removal processes. Concerning atmospheric radioactivity, the reader is referred to other textbooks (Junge, 1963 Cadle, 1966 Israel and Israel, 1973). 

Telegadas, K. (1972). Atmospheric radioactivity along the HASL ground-levels sampling network, 1968 to 1970 as an indicator of tropospheric and stratospheric sources. J. Geophys. Res. 77, 1004-1011. 

The use of radioisotopes in the national economy is strictly and efficiently controlled and thus, it makes no important contribution to the atmosphere radioactivity in spite of the great variety of radioactive substances used. 

Announced Nuclear Detonations, 1945-1962, Compiled by the Atmospheric Radioactivity Research Project, U. S, Weather Bureau, Washington, D, C., HASL-142 (1964). 

Atmospheric radioactivity is monitored globally for the verification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), with xenon isotopes Xe, Xe, Xe, and Xe serving as important indicators of nuclear explosions. The interpretation of atmospheric concentrations of radioxenon has been enhanced by quantifying radioxenon emissions released from... 

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