Deep underground measurements of 60Co in steel exposed to the Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 61, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 173-177

  Hult, Mikael ^a   Gasparro, Joël ^a   Vasselli, Roberto ^a   Shizuma, Kiyoshi ^b   Hoshi, Masaharu ^b   Arnold, Dirk ^c   Neumaier, Stefan ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

60Co; Hiroshima; Ultra low level gamma ray spectrometry; Underground laboratory

Indexed keywords

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; STEEL;

ATOMIC BOMBS; UNDERGROUND MEASUREMENTS;

RADIOISOTOPES;

COBALT 60; STEEL;

ATOMIC BOMB; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVALUATION; GAMMA RADIATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; JAPAN; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SAMPLING;

EID: 2942574440     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.03.040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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