Natural radioactivity of Indian building materials and by-products

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-96

  Kumar, Viresh ^a   Ramachandran, T V ^b   Prasad, Rajendra ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Concrete; Fly ash; Potassium 40; Radium; Thorium

Indexed keywords

COAL BYPRODUCTS; CONCRETES; FLY ASH; GAMMA RAYS; POTASSIUM; RADIUM; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THORIUM;

GAMMA RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

RADIOACTIVITY;

POTASSIUM 40; RADON 226; RADON DAUGHTER; THORIUM 232; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; INDIA; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVITY;

COAL; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIUM; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; THORIUM;

EID: 0032972272     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(98)00154-7     Document Type: Article

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