Long-term development of the radionuclide exposure of murine rodent populations in Belarus after the Chernobyl accident

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 169-181

  Ryabokon, N I ^a   Smolich, I I ^a   Kudryashov, V P ^b   Goncharova, R I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND CYTOLOGY   (Belarus)

^b Inst Radiobiologii   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HEALTH CARE; PLUTONIUM; RISKS; SOILS;

LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT; MURINE RODENTS; NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS; RADIONUCLIDE ACTIVITY;

RADIOISOTOPES;

AMERICIUM 241; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 238; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; PLUTONIUM 241; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM 90; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOREST; GAMMA RADIATION; HEALTH HAZARD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVITY; REACTOR; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; TISSUE LEVEL; VOLE; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

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

BIODIVERSITY; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HEALTH; RADIOISOTOPES; RODENTS; SOIL;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; MURINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 27944484760     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-005-0015-2     Document Type: Article

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