An assessment of radiation doses at an educational institution 57.8 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 1 month after the nuclear accident

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 124-130

  Tsuji, Masayoshi ^a   Kanda, Hideyuki ^a   Kakamu, Takeyasu ^a   Kobayashi, Daisuke ^a   Miyake, Masao ^a   Hayakawa, Takehito ^a   Mori, Yayoi ^a   Okochi, Toshiyasu ^a   Hazama, Akihiro ^a   Fukushima, Tetsuhito ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental radiation measurements; Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident; Radiation; Risk assessment; Systematic sampling

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRASS; JAPAN; MOSS; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL; SOIL;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; AIR POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; CITIES; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; TIME FACTORS;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84862864972     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-011-0229-7     Document Type: Article

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