Uranium and thorium series radionuclides in drinking water from drilled bedrock wells: Correlation to geology and bedrock radioactivity and dose estimation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 249-258

  Isam Salih, M M ^a   Pettersson, H B L ^a   Lund, E ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; POLONIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; RADON 222; THORIUM; URANIUM; URANIUM 238; WELL WATER; RADIUM; RADON;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; GEOLOGY; INGESTION; INHALATION; RADIOACTIVITY; WATER SAMPLING; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEDIMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; POLONIUM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIUM; RADON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; THORIUM; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; WATER SUPPLY; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 0036028930     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006093     Document Type: Article

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