Original Research Papers
Sources of Polonium-210 within the troposphere
Authors:
- Alain MarencoEmail Alain Marenco
- Jacques Fontan
Abstract
Contemporary technical literature has given consideration to complementary sources of 210Po (fossil, terrestrial, stratospheric, artificial). A discussion of the importance of these various sources, based on short-time measurements of 210Po, of 210Pb, of long-lived nuclides and of products representative of pollution, carried out in S-W France, is given herein. It is concluded that tropospheric 210Po is of natural origin and derived essentially from the decay of the 210Pb present in the atmosphere.
- Year: 1972
- Volume: 24 Issue: 1
- Page/Article: 38-46
- DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v24i1.10618
- Submitted on 18 May 1971
- Accepted on 1 Dec 1971
- Published on 1 Jan 1972
- Peer Reviewed