Residual radioactivity in the soil of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site in the former USSR

Health Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 142-148

  Yamamoto, Masayoshi ^a   Tsukatani, Tsuneo ^b   Katayama, Yukio ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

atomic bomb; plutonium; radioactivity; soil

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; COBALT 60; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SAMPLING; SOIL POLLUTION; USSR;

EID: 0029941280     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199608000-00004     Document Type: Article

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