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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3067-2013
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Surface pathway of radioactive plume of TEPCO Fukushima NPP1 released 134Cs and 137Cs

M. Aoyama, M. Uematsu, D. Tsumune, and Y. Hamajima

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