Twenty years' application of agricultural countermeasures following the Chernobyl accident: Lessons learned

Journal of Radiological Protection

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Fesenko, S V ^a   Alexakhin, R M ^b   Balonov, M I ^a   Bogdevich, I M ^c   Howard, B J ^d   Kashparov, V A ^e   Sanzharova, N I ^b   Panov, A V ^b   Voigt, G ^a   Zhuchenka, Yu M ^f  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGY AND AGROECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry   (Belarus)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^f Research Institute of Radiology   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; RADIATION PROTECTION;

AGRICULTURAL COUNTERMEASURES; CONTAMINATED FOODS; COUNTERMEASURE APPLICATION;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

AGRICULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PLOWING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOIL TREATMENT; UKRAINE;

AGRICULTURE; NUCLEAR POWER; NUCLEAR RADIATION;

EID: 33846115733     PISSN: 09524746     EISSN: 13616498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0952-4746/26/4/R01     Document Type: Review

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