Multimedia benchmarking analysis for three risk assessment models: RESRAD, MMSOILS, and MEPAS

Risk Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 187-201

  Mills, William B ^a   Cheng, J J ^b   Droppo Jr , James G ^c   Faillace, Ernest R ^b   Gnanapragasam, Emmanuel K ^b   Johns, Robert A ^a   Laniak, Gerard F ^d   Lew, Christine S ^a   Strenge, Dennis L ^c   Sutherland, Jonna F ^e   Whelan, Gene ^c   Yu, Charley ^b  

^a TETRA TECH INC   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Human health risk; Modeling; Multimedia

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOISOTOPES; RISK ASSESSMENT; URANIUM;

HUMAN EXPOSURE;

HEALTH RISKS;

GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER; URANIUM 238;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LANDFILL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOGENS; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORECASTING; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HALF-LIFE; HEALTH; HUMANS; METHYLENE CHLORIDE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIMEDIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 8544270862     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1997.tb00858.x     Document Type: Article

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