Measurement of 129I and 137Cs in soils from Belarus and reconstruction of 131I deposition from the chernobyl accident

Health Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-19

  Straume, T ^a,g   Anspaugh, L R ^a   Marchetti, A A ^b   Voigt, G ^c   Minenko, V ^d   Gu, F ^a   Men, P ^a   Trofimik, S ^d   Tretyakevich, S ^d   Drozdovitch, V ^e   Shagalova, E ^f   Zhukova, O ^f   Germenchuk, M ^f   Berlovich, S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^d Laboratory of Thyroidology   (Belarus)

^e INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^f Center of Radiation Control and Monitoring of Environment   (Belarus)

^g NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

129I; Accidents, power reactor; Chernobyl; Soil

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; IODINE 129; IODINE 131;

ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CANCER;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; BYELARUS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; UKRAINE;

EID: 33745270793     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000184672.67781.a3     Document Type: Article

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