Radioactive contamination in residential areas /

For many decades, investigations of the behaviour and implications of radioactive contamination in the environment have focused on agricultural areas and food production. This was due to the erroneous assumption that the consequences of credible contaminating incidents would be restricted to rural a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Andersson, Kasper G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Elsevier Science, 2008.
Series:Radioactivity in the environment.
Subjects:
Radioactive pollution.
Urban pollution.
Pollution radioactive.
Pollution urbaine.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword (K.G. Andersson)
  • 1. Potential Sources of Contamination in Inhabited Areas (R. Mustonen)
  • 2. The Dispersion, Deposition and Resuspension of Atmospheric Contamination in the Outdoor Urban Environment (K.W. Nicholson)
  • 3. Airborne Contamination inside Dwellings (M.A. Byrne)
  • 4. Contamination of Humans: in Respiratory Tract and on Body Surfaces (M.A. Byrne)
  • 5. Migration of Radionuclides on Outdoor Surfaces (K.G. Andersson)
  • 6. Estimation of Doses in Inhabited Areas (K.G. Andersson, J.A. Jones, and T.W. Charnock)
  • 7. Measurement and Screening of Ccontaminated Inhabited Areas (P. Zombori)
  • 8. Countermeasures for Reduction of Dose in Contaminated Inhabited Areas (K.G. Andersson)
  • 9. Non-Radiological Perspectives
  • Holistic Value Assessment of Countermeasure Strategies (D.H. Oughton, and E.-M. Forsberg)
  • 10. Strategies for Restoration of Contaminated Inhabited Areas (K.G. Andersson)
  • Concluding Remarks (K.G. Andersson).

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