137Cs mobility in soils and its long-term effect on the external radiation exposure

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-37

  Bunzl, K ^a   Jacob, P ^a   Schimmack, W ^a   Alexakhin, R M ^c   Arkhipov, N P ^b   Ivanov, Y ^d   Kruglov, S V ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Pripyat Res Ctr Tech Indust A   (Ukraine)

^c RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY AND AGROECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; CESIUM;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COMPARTMENT MODEL; GAMMA RADIATION; GERMANY; HALF LIFE TIME; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SOIL POLLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL POLLUTANT; TIME; UKRAINE;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAMMA RAYS; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; TIME FACTORS; UKRAINE;

EID: 0030610675     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110050052     Document Type: Article

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