Chernobyl's radioactive contamination of food and people

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1181, Issue , 2009, Pages 289-302

  Nesterenko, Alexey V ^a   Nesterenko, Vassily B ^a   Yablokov, Alexey V ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVITY; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; RADIATION DOSE; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CARUM CARVI; CORYLUS; JUNIPERUS; THYMUS VULGARIS;

ANIMALS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 72049090907     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04837.x     Document Type: Review

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