Natural radionuclides in bottled drinking waters produced in Croatia and their contribution to radiation dose

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 437, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-60

  Rožmarić, Martina ^a   Rogić, Matea ^a   Benedik, Ljudmila ^b   Štrok, Marko ^b  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Bottled drinking water; Dose assessment; Natural radionuclides

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; AGE GROUPS; CRITICAL GROUPS; CROATIA; CROATIANS; DOSE ASSESSMENTS; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; MINERAL WATER; NATURAL MINERALS; NATURAL RADIONUCLIDES; RADIONUCLIDE ACTIVITY; REFERENCE DOSE; TOTAL DOSE; URANIUM ISOTOPES; WATER TYPES;

BEVERAGES; LEAD; NUCLEAR FUELS; WATER;

RADIOISOTOPES;

DRINKING WATER; LEAD 210; MINERAL WATER; POLONIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIUM 226; RADIUM 228; URANIUM 234; URANIUM 238;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; DRINKING WATER; LEAD ISOTOPE; MARKET; POLONIUM ISOTOPE; RADIONUCLIDE; RADIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CROATIA; DOSIMETRY; FLUID INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONIZING RADIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOCHEMISTRY; SCHOOL CHILD; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CROATIA; DRINKING WATER; HUMANS; MINERAL WATERS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOISOTOPES; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

CROATIA;

EID: 84865052956     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.07.018     Document Type: Article

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