Exposure to radiation from the natural radioactivity in Jordanian building materials

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 93-96

  Al Jundi, J ^a   Salah, W ^a   Bawa'aneh, M S ^a   Afaneh, F ^a  

^a HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM 40; RADIUM 226; THORIUM 232;

ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GONAD DOSE; JORDAN; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION MONITORING; REFERENCE VALUE;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; HUMANS; JORDAN; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIUM; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; THORIUM;

EID: 33646885660     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci332     Document Type: Article

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