Predicting radionuclide transfer to wild animals: An application of a proposed environmental impact assessment framework to the Chernobyl exclusion zone

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 161-168

  Beresford, Nicholas A ^a   Wright, Simon M ^a   Barnett, Catherine L ^a   Wood, Michael D ^b   Gaschak, Sergey ^c   Arkhipov, Andrey ^c   Sazykina, Tatiana G ^d   Howard, Brenda J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ICC   (Ukraine)

^d RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION TYPHOON   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IONIZING RADIATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOISOTOPES; SAMPLING;

CHERNOBYL ZONE; FIELD MEASUREMENTS; RADIONUCLIDE TRANSFER; WILD ANIMALS;

BIODIVERSITY;

CESIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM 90;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INVERTEBRATE; IONIZING RADIATION; MAMMAL; PREDICTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BODY BURDEN; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPES; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UKRAINE; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 27944439590     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-005-0018-z     Document Type: Article

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