Twenty-year follow-up study of radiocesium migration in soil

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 372-377

  Clouvas, A ^a   Xanthos, S ^a   Takoudis, G ^a   Antonopoulos Domis, M ^a   Zinoviadis, G ^a   Vidmar, T ^b   Likar, A ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 37449014096     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm222     Document Type: Article

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