Uranium quantification in groundwater and health risk from its ingestion in Haryana, India

Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1571-1580

  Singh, Balvinder ^a   Kataria, Navish ^a   Garg, V K ^a   Yadav, Poonam ^a   Kishore, Nawal ^a   Pulhani, Vandana ^b  

^a GURU JAMBHESHWAR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

groundwater; LADD; radiological risk; uranium; uranium analyzer

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; POTABLE WATER; URANIUM;

ACCEPTABLE LIMIT; LADD; NATURALLY OCCURRING; RADIOLOGICAL DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL HAZARD; RADIOLOGICAL RISKS; URANIUM CONCENTRATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HEALTH RISKS;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISK; INGESTION RATE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOXICOLOGY; URANIUM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HARYANA; INDIA;

EID: 84929285353     PISSN: 02772248     EISSN: 10290486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02772248.2015.1025787     Document Type: Article

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