In situ gamma-spectrometry several years after deposition of radiocesium. II. Peak-to-valley method

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 283-291

  Gering, F ^a   Hillmann, U ^a   Jacob, P ^a   Fehrenbacher, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SOIL POLLUTION;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; GERMANY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PHOTONS; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; POWER PLANTS; RADIOISOTOPES; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; THORIUM; TIME FACTORS; UKRAINE; URANIUM;

EID: 0032444759     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110050130     Document Type: Article

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