Use of air monitoring and experimental aerosol data for intake assessment for Mayak plutonium workers

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 127, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 535-539

  Zaytseva, Yekaterina V ^a   Tretyakov, Fyodor D ^a   Romanov, Sergey A ^a   Miller, Guthrie ^b   Bertelli, Luiz ^b   Guilmette, Raymond A ^b  

^a Southern Urals Biophysics Institute   (Russian Federation)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM;

AEROSOL; AIR MONITORING; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOCHEMISTRY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; AIR POLLUTANT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPOSURE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; USSR; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; USSR; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 49649125152     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm413     Document Type: Article

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