The fukushima radiation accident: Consequences for radiation accident medical management

Health Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 217-220

  Meineke, Viktor ^a   Dörr, Harald ^a  

^a Bundeswehr Institute of Radiobiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

accident analysis; accidents; dose assessment; emergencies; nuclear; radiological

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK;

ANIMALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHOLOGY; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RISK;

EID: 84863332629     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e31825b5809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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