Health hazards of radioactive sands along the coast of Espírito Santo/Brazil

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 225, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 127-136

  Costa De Moura, Jorge ^b   Wallfass, Carin M ^a   Bossew, Peter ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEALTH RISK; POLLUTION EFFECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; TOURIST ATTRACTION;

BRAZIL; ESPIRITO SANTO; GUARAPARI;

EID: 0041384340     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/225/2002/127     Document Type: Article

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