Modeling radiological risks to human health from contaminated soils: Comparing MEPAS, MMSOILS, and RESRAD

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 777-788

  Regens, James L ^a   Obenshain, Karen R ^b   Gunter, James T ^c   Miller, Vincent ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Keller and Heckman   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminated soils; Multimedia modeling; Radiological risks

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044521514     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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