Iodine-129 measurements in soil samples from Dolon village near the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 359-365

  Endo, Satoru ^a   Tomita, Junpei ^b   Tanaka, Kenichi ^a   Yamamoto, Masayoshi ^b   Fukutani, Satoshi ^c   Imanaka, Tetsuji ^c   Sakaguchi, Aya ^b   Amano, Hikaru ^d   Kawamura, Hidehisa ^e   Kawamura, Hisao ^f   Apsalikov, Kazbek N ^g   Gusev, Boris I ^g   Whitehead, Neil E ^a   Shinkarev, Sergey ^a   Hoshi, Masaharu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e Kyushu Environ Eval Association   (Japan)

^f JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g Kazakh Scientific Research Institute for Radiation Medicine and Ecology Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; ATOMIC BOMBS; IODINE 129; RADIOIODINE; SEMIPALATINSK NUCLEAR TEST SITE (STS); SOIL SAMPLES; THYROID DOSE;

ATMOSPHERICS; IODINE; ISOTOPES; SOILS; TESTING;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CESIUM 137; IODINE 129; PLUTONIUM 239;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ATOMIC BOMB; FALLOUT; FISSION NEUTRON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; POLLUTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SAMPLING; SOIL ANALYSIS; USSR;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; KAZAKHSTAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR WARFARE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 45449083614     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-008-0162-3     Document Type: Article

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