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Uranium Particulate Analysis

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As shown previously in Chap. 7, U-containing material (alongside material of a wide range of other compositions) has been observed to exist distributed across the majority of Fukushima Prefecture. This U-rich atmospheric particulate was shown to be some of the smallest to exist (with a mean diameter of 1.07 µm), while containing the fewest additional elemental constituents (i.e. predominantly composed of just U and O).

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Martin, P.G. (2019). Uranium Particulate Analysis. In: The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17191-9_8

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