Activity concentrations and population dose from radium-226 in food and drinking water in Taiwan

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1245-1249

  Kuo, Yen Chuan ^a   Lai, Shu Ying ^a   Huang, Ching Chung ^a   Lin, Yu Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; FOOD PRODUCTS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; POTABLE WATER; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIUM; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; WATER QUALITY;

RADIOCHEMICAL EXTRACTION;

DOSIMETRY;

DRINKING WATER; RADIUM 226;

ARTICLE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOACTIVITY; TAIWAN; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RADIUM; TAIWAN; WATER POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0031229381     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(97)00213-3     Document Type: Article

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