Underwater gamma-ray spectrometry

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 11, Issue , 2008, Pages 449-479

  Povinec, Pavel P ^a,b   Osvath, Iolanda ^a   Comanducci, Jean François ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

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EID: 44349111746     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(07)11014-7     Document Type: Review

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