Environmental impacts, exposure assessment and health effects related to arsenic emissions from a coal-fired power plant in Central Slovakia; the EXPASCAN Study

Arsenic Exposure and Health Effects V

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 39-49

  Thornton, I ^a   Farago, M E ^a   Keegan, T ^a   Nieuwenhuijsen, M J ^a   Colvile, R N ^a   Pesch, B ^b   Ranft, U ^b   Miskovic, P ^c   Jakubis, P ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IUF LEIBNIZ RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c State Health Institute   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Coal burning; Non melanoma skin cancer; Power generation; Slovakia; Soil contamination

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; COAL; COAL COMBUSTION; COAL FUELED FURNACES; DEPOSITION RATES; DERMATOLOGY; DISEASES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLY ASH; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; ONCOLOGY; POLLUTION CONTROL; POPULATION STATISTICS; POWER GENERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION MODELLING; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; COAL-BURNING; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SKIN CANCERS; SLOVAKIA; SOIL CONTAMINATION;

SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 77955383581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044451441-7/50004-X     Document Type: Chapter

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