Unusual 232Th and 238U contamination on some road surfaces in Taoyuan, Taiwan

Health Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 602-604

  Chang, Wushou P ^a   Nabyvanets, Yuriy B ^b   Jen, Min Hua ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

232Th; Contamination; Exposure, population; Spectrometry, gamma

Indexed keywords

ACTINIUM; ASPHALT; BISMUTH; THORIUM 232; URANIUM 238; THORIUM; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; IONIZING RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; ROCK; SAND; TAIWAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; TAIWAN; THORIUM; URANIUM;

EID: 0034744097     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200106000-00012     Document Type: Article

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