Residual 60Co activity in steel samples exposed to the Hiroshima atomic-bomb neutrons

Health Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 278-284

  Shizuma, Kiyoshi ^a   Iwatani, Kazuo ^a   Hasai, Hiromi ^b   Oka, Takamitsu ^c   Endo, Satoru ^a   Takada, Jun ^a   Hoshi, Masaharu ^a   Fujita, Shoichiro ^d   Watanabe, Tadaaki ^d   Imanaka, Tetsuji ^e  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University   (Japan)

^c Kure University   (Japan)

^d RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

60Co; Atomic bomb; Hiroshima; Neutrons

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; STEEL; CHLORINE; COBALT; EUROPIUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; JAPAN; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; ATOMIC WARFARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; FAST NEUTRON RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY;

CHLORINE; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; COSMIC RADIATION; EUROPIUM; FAST NEUTRONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; STEEL;

EID: 0031595169     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199809000-00006     Document Type: Article

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