Solubility of airborne radioactive fuel particles from the Chernobyl reactor and implication to dose

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-49

  Garger, E K ^a   Sazhenyuk, A D ^a   Odintzov, A A ^a   Paretzke, H G ^b   Roth, P ^b   Tschiersch, J ^b  

^a Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences Kiev   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM 241; CESIUM 137; FUEL; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 249; RADIOACTIVE AEROSOL; STRONTIUM 90; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; FILTER; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG FLUID; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; SIMULATION; SOLUBILITY;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; AEROSOLS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FILTRATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOISOTOPES; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 2642516367     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-004-0226-y     Document Type: Article

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