Comparison of retrospective luminescence dosimetry with computational modeling in two highly contaminated settlements downwind of the chernobyl NPP

Health Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-41

  Bailiff, I K ^a   Stepanenko, V F ^b   Goksu H Y ^c   Botter Jensen L ^d   Brodski, L ^e   Chumak, V ^f   Correcher, V ^g   Delgado, A ^g   Golikov, V ^h   Jungner, H ⁱ   Khamidova, L G ^b   Kolizshenkov, T V ^b   Likhtarev, I ^f   Meckbach, R ^c   Petrov, S A ^a   Sholom, S ^f  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RADIOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^f Radiation Protection Institute Kiev   (Ukraine)

^g CIEMAT   (Spain)

^h Institute of Radiation Hygiene   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Dosimetry; Exposure, population; Fallout

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; BISMUTH 212; BISMUTH 214; CESIUM 137; LEAD; LEAD 212; LEAD 214; POTASSIUM 40; RADIOISOTOPE; THALLIUM; THALLIUM 208; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FALLOUT; GAMMA RADIATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMINESCENCE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAMPLING; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; UKRAINE; WIND;

EID: 10744220194     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200401000-00006     Document Type: Article

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