Assessment of the current internal dose due to 137Cs and 90Sr for people living within the Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakhstan

Health Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 187-192

  Semiochkina, N ^a   Voigt, G ^b   Mukusheva, M ^c   Bruk, G ^d   Travnikova, I ^d   Strand, P ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c Natl Nucl Ctr Rep Kazakhstan   (Russian Federation)

^d Institute of Radiation Hygiene   (Russian Federation)

^e NORWEGIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AUTHORITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dose, internal; Exposure, population; Fallout; Nuclear weapons

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; STRONTIUM 90;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CALCULATION; EVALUATION; FALLOUT; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUTUROLOGY; HORSE; HUMAN; KAZAKHSTAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; BODY BURDEN; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; HUMANS; KAZAKHSTAN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS CABALLUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 1642539120     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200402000-00010     Document Type: Article

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