Importance of personal dose equivalent evaluation in fukushima in overcoming social panic

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 144-146

  Yoshida, Kohji ^a   Hashiguchi, Kanami ^a   Taira, Yasuyuki ^a   Matsuda, Naoki ^b   Yamashita, Shunichi ^a,c   Takamura, Noboru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PANIC; RADIATION AND RADIATION RELATED PHENOMENA; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION RESPONSE;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PANIC DISORDER; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RADIOLOGIC HEALTH;

EID: 84864920147     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncr466     Document Type: Article

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