Safety of workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

The Lancet

Volumn 377, Issue 9776, 2011, Pages 1489-1490

  Tanimoto, Tetsuya ^a   Uchida, Naoyuki ^b   Kodama, Yuko ^c   Teshima, Takanori ^d   Taniguchi, Shuichi ^b  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; HEMOPOIETIC GROWTH FACTOR; NUCLEAR FUEL; RADIOACTIVE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

APHERESIS; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISASTER PLANNING; GOVERNMENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HAEMOPOIETIC SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; JAPAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TSUNAMI; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 79955629000     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60519-9     Document Type: Letter

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