Variability of water content and of depth profiles of global fallout 137cs in grassland soils and the resulting external gamma-dose rates

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-33

  Schimmack, W ^a   Steindl, H ^a   Bunzl, K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; COMPARTMENT MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FALLOUT; GAMMA RADIATION; GERMANY; GRASS; HALF LIFE TIME; RADIATION DOSE; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER CONTENT;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GAMMA RAYS; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; NUCLEAR WARFARE; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; UKRAINE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0031841465     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110050088     Document Type: Article

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