Results of environmental radiation monitoring at the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, JAEA, following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 281-286

  Takeyasu, Masanori ^a   Nakano, Masanao ^a   Fujita, Hiroki ^a   Nakada, Akira ^a   Watanabe, Hitoshi ^a   Sumiya, Shuichi ^a   Furuta, Sadaaki ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accident; Air absorbed dose rate; Environmental radiation monitoring; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant; Radionuclide concentration in air and in fallout

Indexed keywords

AIR ABSORBED DOSE RATE; ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COMMITTED EFFECTIVE DOSE; CONCENTRATION RATIO; DOSE RATE; EMERGENCY MONITORING; ENGINEERING LABORATORIES; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION; NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLES; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT; RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATION;

ACCIDENTS; CESIUM; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RADIOISOTOPES; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

FALLOUT;

EID: 84859219922     PISSN: 00223131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223131.2012.660014     Document Type: Article

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