Papastefanou C. Radioactive Aerosols

Elsevier Science, 2008. — 186 p. — (Radioactivity in the Environment). — ISBN: 0080440754, 9780080440750Whenever radioactivity is released to the atmosphere, for example by the detonation of nuclear weapons or the testing of nuclear weapons or from nuclear reactor accidents that fraction of it which remains airborne for more than a few hours is liable to be attached to aerosol particles. The resulting radioactive aerosols are carried by atmospheric mixing processes until they settle out or are scavenged by precipitation.