Environmental health physics: 50 Years of progress

Health Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 676-696

  Moeller, Dade W ^a  

^a Dade Moeller and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination, environmental; Environmental assessment; Health Physics Society; Reviews

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADIOISOTOPE;

ATOMIC BOMB; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PHYSICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; HEALTH PHYSICS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; LIFESTYLE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY;

BACKGROUND RADIATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH PHYSICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION;

EID: 18544387765     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200506000-00012     Document Type: Review

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