External radiation in Dolon village due to local fallout from the first USSR atomic bomb test in 1949

Journal of Radiation Research

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. A, 2006, Pages

  Imanaka, Tetsuji ^a   Fukutani, Satoshi ^a   Yamamoto, Masayoshi ^b   Sakaguchi, Aya ^b   Hoshi, Masaharu ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atomic bomb test; Dolon; External radiation; Fallout contamination; Semipalatinsk

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); DEPOSITION; FISSION PRODUCTS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION; RURAL AREAS;

ATOMIC BOMB TEST; ATOMIC BOMBS; DOLON; EXTERNAL RADIATION; FALLOUT CONTAMINATION; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRODUCT COMPOSITION; SEMIPALATINSK; SEMIPALATINSK NUCLEAR TEST SITES; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

FALLOUT;

EID: 33645422945     PISSN: 04493060     EISSN: 13499157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1269/jrr.47.A121     Document Type: Review

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