Analysis of dose distribution for heavily exposed workers in the first criticality accident in Japan

Radiation Research

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 535-542

  Endo, Akira ^a   Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URANIUM; URANYL NITRATE;

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; JAPAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUTRON RADIATION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; ORGAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SIMULATION; SKIN;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; BONE AND BONES; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CALCIUM RADIOISOTOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EMERGENCIES; FIBROSIS; GAMMA RAYS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; JAPAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRONS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POSTURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; SKIN; SODIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; URANIUM;

EID: 0037384427     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2003)159[0535:AODDFH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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