A fast portable emanometer for field measurement of radon and thoron flux

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 109-120

  Zahorowski, W ^a   Whittlestone, S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON; RADON 222;

ARTICLE; MODEL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SCINTILLATION;

EID: 0029846042     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a031802     Document Type: Article

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