Environmental contamination and external radiation dose rates from radionuclides released from the fukushima nuclear power plant

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 537-545

  Taira, Yasuyuki ^a,c   Hayashida, Naomi ^a   Yamashita, Shunichi ^a   Kudo, Takashi ^a   Matsuda, Naoki ^a   Takahashi, Jumpei ^b   Gutevitc, Alexander ^d   Kazlovsky, Alexander ^e   Takamura, Noboru ^a  

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

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Nagasaki Prefectural Institute for Environmental Research and Public Health   (Japan)

^d Zhitomir Inter Area Medical Diagnostic Center   (Ukraine)

^e GOMEL STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POLLUTANT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

EID: 84866438894     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncs040     Document Type: Article

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