222Rn concentrations of water in the Balaton Highland and in the southern part of Hungary, and the assessment of the resulting dose

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 491-495

  Somlai, Károly ^a   Tokonami, Shinji ^b   Ishikawa, Tetsuo ^b   Vancsura, Péter ^c   Gáspár, Mónika ^c   Jobbágy, Viktor ^d   Somlai, János ^d   Kovács, Tibor ^a,b  

^a Social Organisation of Radioecology of Cleaness   (Hungary)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c South Danubien Authority of the Environment   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

Author keywords

222Rn; Dose assessment; Drinking water; Spring water

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DOSIMETRY; POTABLE WATER; SPRINGS (WATER);

BALATON HIGHLAND; DOSE ASSESSMENT; PLAIN REGION; SPRING WATER;

RADON;

EID: 34249307494     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2006.11.005     Document Type: Article

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