Semipalatinsk test site: Introduction

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-55

  Grosche, B ^a  

^a BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR ENERGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; ATOMIC WARFARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; KAZAKHSTAN; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOMETRY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

PLUTONIUM;

COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; KAZAKHSTAN; NUCLEAR WARFARE; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOMETRY; RUSSIA; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 0036510987     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-002-0141-z     Document Type: Article

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