Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident

Energy and Environmental Science

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 8743-8757

  Ten Hoeve, John E ^a   Jacobson, Mark Z ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA , USA; CESIUM 137; COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR-TEST-BAN TREATY; DOSE-RESPONSE MODELS; EMISSION RATES; EXTERNAL EXPOSURE; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; GROUND-LEVEL; HEALTH EFFECTS; HUMAN EXPOSURES; INHALATION EXPOSURE; IODINE-131; LOCAL POPULATIONS; LOW DOSE; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEASONALITY; UPPER BOUND;

CESIUM; DISEASES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CANCER; CESIUM ISOTOPE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; HEALTH IMPACT; INGESTION RATE; IODINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVITY; SEASONALITY;

CALIFORNIA; DIABLO CANYON; FUKUSHIMA; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865242434     PISSN: 17545692     EISSN: 17545706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2ee22019a     Document Type: Article

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