New developments to support decision-making in contaminated inhabited areas following incidents involving a release of radioactivity to the environment

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 439-454

  Andersson, K G ^a   Brown, J ^b   Mortimer, K ^b   Jones, J A ^b   Charnock, T ^b   Thykier Nielsen, S ^a   Kaiser, J C ^c   Proehl, G ^c   Nielsen, S P ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contamination; Countermeasure; Decision support; Decision maker; Dispersion; Dose model; Inhabited area; Nuclear accident; Optimisation; Recovery

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

DECISION SUPPORT; DOSE MODEL; INHABITED AREA; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT;

RADIOACTIVITY;

CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTAMINATED LAND; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISPERSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FALLOUT; LAND MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOACTIVITY; RECOVERY;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; HUMAN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; CIVIL DEFENSE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EUROPE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; TERRORISM;

EID: 39749186695     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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