Concentration of plutonium in placentas from the Nenetz autonomous district close to the Novaya Zemlaye nuclear weapons test site

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-137

  Lund, E ^a   Tkatchev, A V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; BIOACCUMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATERNITY WARD; PLACENTA; SPECTROMETRY; TISSUE LEVEL; USSR;

EID: 0029802157     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a031805     Document Type: Article

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