Evaluation of Environmental Contamination and Estimated Radiation Doses for the Return to Residents' Homes in Kawauchi Village, Fukushima Prefecture

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Taira, Yasuyuki ^a,c   Hayashida, Naomi ^a   Yamaguchi, Hitoshi ^b,c   Yamashita, Shunichi ^a   Endo, Yuukou ^d   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 Kawauchi Municipal Government   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; JAPAN; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; TREE;

CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GEOGRAPHY; HOUSING; HUMANS; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA;

BASIDIOMYCOTA;

EID: 84866874925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045816     Document Type: Article

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