Radon and thoron in cave dwellings (Yan'an, China)

Health Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 438-444

  Wiegand, Jens ^a   Feige, Sebastian ^a   Quingling, Xie ^b   Schreiber, Ulrich ^a   Wieditz, Katja ^a   Wittmann, Christiane ^a   Xiarong, Luo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Guilin Institute of Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Dose rate; Naturally occurring radionuclides; Radon; Thoron

Indexed keywords

RADON; RADON 220;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; CHINA; HALF LIFE TIME; HOUSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECTROSCOPY;

THORON;

EID: 0034028542     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200004000-00008     Document Type: Article

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