External doses of residents near semipalatinsk nuclear test site

Journal of Radiation Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 337-344

  Takada, Jun ^a   Hoshi, Masaharu ^a   Nagatomo, Tsuneto ^b   Yamamoto, Masayoshi ^c   Endo, Satoru ^a   Takatsuji, Toshihiro ^d   Yoshikawa, Isao ^d   Gusev, Boris I ^e   Sakerbaev, Alexander K ^e   Tchaijunusova, Naily A J ^e  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Kazakh Sci Res Inst Radiat M   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Brick; External dose; Nuclear tests; Semipalatinsk; TLD

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

BACKGROUND LEVEL; EXTERNAL DOSE; EXTERNAL RADIATION DOSE; NUCLEAR TESTS; SEMIPALATINSK; SEMIPALATINSK NUCLEAR TEST SITES; TLD; VALUE-BASED;

BRICK;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC WARFARE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; KAZAKHSTAN; POLLUTION; RADIATION DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; KAZAKHSTAN; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0043211114     PISSN: 04493060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1269/jrr.40.337     Document Type: Article

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