NIRS external dose estimation system for Fukushima residents after the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP accident

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Akahane, Keiichi ^a   Yonai, Shunsuke ^a   Fukuda, Shigekazu ^a   Miyahara, Nobuyuki ^a   Yasuda, Hiroshi ^a   Iwaoka, Kazuki ^a   Matsumoto, Masaki ^a   Fukumura, Akifumi ^a   Akashi, Makoto ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84876514758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01670     Document Type: Article

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