The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011

Health Physics

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 630-637

  Tominaga, Takako ^b   Hachiya, Misao ^b   Tatsuzaki, Hideo ^b   Akashi, Makoto ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Accidents; Contamination; Emergency planning; Nuclear; Transportation

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN;

AMBULANCE; CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EARTHQUAKE; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EXPLOSION; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; MANPOWER; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PACIFIC OCEAN; RESCUE PERSONNEL;

AMBULANCES; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; EXPLOSIONS; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HYDROGEN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84899784365     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: 15385159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0000000000000093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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