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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 152, Issue 2, Pages 314-321Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.06.027
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Pu isotope pollution; SF-ICP-MS; Lake Hongfeng; lacustrine sediments; global fallout
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Studies on the distribution and isotope compositions of fallout Pu are important for source characterization of possible future non-fallout Pu contamination in aquatic environments, and useful for dating of recent sediments to understand the pollution history of environmental contaminants. We present the historical record of atmospheric Pu fallout reconstructed from a sediment core from Lake Hongfeng, China. The Pu activity profile was in agreement with the Cs-137 profile. Inventories were 50.7 Bq m(-2) for Pu239+240 and 1586 Bq m(-2) for Cs-137. The average Pu-240/Pu-239 atom ratio was 0.185+/-0.009, indicating that Pu originated from global stratospheric fallout rather than from direct tropospheric or close-in fallout from the Chinese nuclear testing conducted in the 1970s. Our data suggested that Lake Hongfeng would be an ideal setting for monitoring atmospheric fallout and environmental changes in this region. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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