Estimates of radiological risk from a terrorist attack using plutonium

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 125-130

  Durante, Marco ^a   Manti, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CANCER MORTALITY; HUMAN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TERRORISM; WASTE DISPOSAL; WEAPON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPLOSION; FIRE; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; POLLUTANT; RADIATION INJURY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WIND;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPLOSIONS; FIRES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TERRORISM; WIND;

EID: 0036615325     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-002-0156-5     Document Type: Article

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