Human health risk assessment of naturally occurring radioactive materials in produced water - A case study

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1155-1171

  Chowdhury, Shakhawat ^a   Husain, Tahir ^a   Veitch, Brian ^a   Bose, Neil ^a   Sadiq, Rehan ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dilution model; Fish tissues; Human health risk; Monte Carlo simulations; NORM; Produced water

Indexed keywords

EID: 12244303261     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030490887203     Document Type: Article

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