Radiation doses among residents living 37 km northwest of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 110, Issue , 2012, Pages 84-89

  Kamada, Nanao ^a   Saito, Osamu ^b   Endo, Satoru ^c   Kimura, Akirou ^c   Shizuma, Kiyoshi ^c  

^a Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivors Relief Foundation   (Japan)

^b Watari Hospital   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

External radiation dose; Fukushima Dai ichi Nuclear Power Plant; Internal radiation dose; Tohoku disaster; Urinary bioassay

Indexed keywords

COMMITTED EFFECTIVE DOSE; DOSE RATE; EFFECTIVE DOSE; EQUIVALENT DOSE; EXTERNAL DOSE; EXTERNAL RADIATION; INTERNAL RADIATION; IODINE-131; RADIOACTIVE PLUME; THYROID GLANDS;

BIOASSAY; CESIUM; GERMANIUM; IODINE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

DOSIMETRY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOASSAY; CESIUM ISOTOPE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FALLOUT; HEALTH RISK; IODINE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RESIDENT POPULATION; SPECTROMETER; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI; URINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHILD; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECTROMETER; TSUNAMI;

JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING;

FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84858145389     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: 18791700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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