Radionuclides in marine fishes and birds from Amchitka and Kiska Islands in the Aleutians: Establishing a baseline

Health Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 265-279

  Burger, Joanna ^a,b,c   Gochfeld, Michael ^b,c,d   Kosson, David ^b,e   Powers, Charles W ^b,c,d   Friedlander, Barry ^b,c,d   Stabin, Michael ^b,e   Favret, Derek ^b,e   Jewett, Stephen ^b,f   Snigaroff, Daniel ^g   Snigaroff, Ronald ^g   Stamm, Tim ^h   Weston, James ⁱ   Jeitner, Christian ^a,b   Volz, Conrad ^b,j  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^g Village of Atka   (United States)

^h University of Pittsburgh ^*  (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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Author keywords

137Cs; Biological indicators; Plutonium; Radioactivity, environmental

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDE; AMERICIUM; CESIUM 137; COBALT 60; EUROPIUM; IODINE 129; PLUTONIUM 238; PLUTONIUM 239; PLUTONIUM 240; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM 90; TECHNETIUM 99M; URANIUM 234; URANIUM 235; URANIUM 238;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; FRATERCULA CIRRHATA; GADUS MACROCEPHALUS; HIPPOGLOSSUS STENOLEPIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACTINOID SERIES ELEMENTS; ALASKA; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPES; REFERENCE VALUES; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

ANAS; AVES; FRATERCULA CIRRHATA; GADUS MACROCEPHALUS; HIPPOGLOSSUS STENOLEPIS; LARUS GLAUCESCENS; PISCES; SALVELINUS MALMA; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 33846993387     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000248123.27888.d0     Document Type: Article

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