Modeled concentrations in rice and ingestion doses from chronic atmospheric releases of tritium

Health Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 533-541

  Peterson, S R ^a,b   Davis, P A ^a  

^a ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

^b Terrestrial and Atmospheric Monitoring and Modelling Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Dose assessment; Emissions; Ingestion; Modeling; Tritium

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RICE; WATER CONTENT;

TRITIUM;

EID: 0034034252     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200005000-00011     Document Type: Article

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