Risk assessment for natural uranium in subsurface water of Punjab State, India

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 381-393

  Kumar, Ajay ^a   Usha, N ^a   Sawant, P D ^a   Tripathi, R M ^a   Raj, Sanu S ^a   Mishra, Manish ^a   Rout, Sabyasachi ^a   Supreeta, P ^a   Singh, Jaspal ^b   Kumar, Sanjeev ^b   Kushwaha, H S ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chemical risk; Groundwater; Laser fluorimeter; Radiological risk; Uranium

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956356613     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2011.552395     Document Type: Article

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