Deposition velocity of gaseous organic iodine from the atmosphere to rice plants

Health Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 757-762

  Muramatsu, Yasuyuki ^a   Uchida, Shigeo ^a   Sumiya, Misako ^a   Ohmomo, Yoichiro ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

129I; environmental assessment; environmental transport; food chain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD CHAIN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE;

EID: 0029969038     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199611000-00018     Document Type: Article

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