Radioactive aerosols released from the Chernobyl Shelter into the immediate environment

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-114

  Garger, E K ^a   Kashpur, V A ^a   Li, W B ^b   Tschiersch, J ^b  

^a National Academy of Science of Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHERNOBYL REACTOR; FLOW RATE; RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES;

AEROSOLS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RADIOISOTOPES;

RADIOACTIVE WASTES;

CESIUM 137; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOACTIVE AEROSOL; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM 90;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DOSE RESPONSE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; WORKER;

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; UKRAINE;

EID: 33745877304     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-006-0047-2     Document Type: Article

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