Radioactive contamination: State of the science and its application to predictive models

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 100, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 133-149

  Whicker, F W ^a   Shaw, G ^b   Voigt, G ^c   Holm, E ^d  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environmental radioactivity; Radiation effects; Radioecology; Radionuclide transport; Transport models

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; MODELING; PREDICTION; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; HEALTH HAZARD; MODEL; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032858939     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(99)00099-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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