A rainout model for the study of the additional exposure rate due to rainfall

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 603-608

  Horng, Ming Chi ^a,b   Jiang, Shiang Huei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Air dose rate; HPIC; Radon progeny; Rainfall; Rainout model

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; GAMMA RAYS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADON; RAIN; SPECTROMETRY;

AIR DOSE RATE;

RADIOACTIVITY;

EID: 0042235722     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(03)00067-2     Document Type: Article

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