Radiocaesium activity concentrations in wheat grains in the Republic of Croatia for 1965-2003 and dose assessment

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 115, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 51-67

  Franić, Zdenko ^a   Marović, Gordana ^a   Lokobauer, Nevenka ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Chernobyl fallout; Dose assessment; Radio ecological sensitivity; Radiocaesium; Wheat grains

Indexed keywords

CHERNOBYL FALLOUT; CROATIA; DOSE ASSESSMENT; RADIOCAESIUM; WHEAT GRAINS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FALLOUT; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVITY;

CESIUM;

CESIUM; CESIUM 134; CESIUM 137;

CESIUM; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; FALLOUT; WHEAT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROATIA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FOOD INTAKE; GRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; POLLUTION; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIOACTIVITY; WHEAT;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CROATIA; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOMETRY; SEEDS; TRITICUM;

CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 33745951897     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-5251-7     Document Type: Article

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