Dose assessment considerations for remedial action on plutonium-contaminated soil

Soil and Sediment Contamination

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 257-269

  Church, Bruce W ^a  

^a BWC Enterprises Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cleanup criteria; Climate; Contaminated soil; Dose; Dose assessment; Exposure; Fetch; Footprint; Inhalation; Nuclear weapons tests; One point safe tests; Particle; Pathway; Plutonium; Pu oxide; Receptor; Resuspension; Risk; Risk assessment; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DECONTAMINATION; DOSIMETRY; IMPURITIES; PLUTONIUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY TESTING;

REMEDIATION;

SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL;

EID: 0031146912     PISSN: 10588337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15320389709383564     Document Type: Article

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