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, 2021 Introduction: London bombings on July 7, 2005 presented serious difficulties for medical response, moreover, if a dirty bomb attack had occurred in an underground train, it would have been more difficulties to cope with.
Tiecheng Yan, Yuxuan Yang, Min Yu
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, 2021 Additional file 3: Table S1. Committed effective dose and total equivalent doses absorbed over 50 years by organs in a victim of a “dirty bomb” attack staying for 30 min in the vicinity of the detonation point depending on the distribution of particle ...
Alexis Rump (11798399) +6 more
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Global Security: Health, Science and Policy, 2020 Scholars have not regarded Somalia as a place of relevance to thinking about nuclear security. This article gives four reasons why this perspective is not well founded. First, as the state strengthens it needs an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Eric Herring +3 more
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Characterizing hospital workers' willingness to respond to a radiological event. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Terrorist use of a radiological dispersal device (RDD, or "dirty bomb"), which combines a conventional explosive device with radiological materials, is among the National Planning Scenarios of the United States government.
Ran D Balicer +9 more
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GLOBAL NUCLEAR THREATS CAUSED BY RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE (AT THE PLACE OF FOREWORD)
Геохімія техногенезу, 2022 The four-month experience of russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already shown the failure of the world security system, primarily the system of nuclear safety and security.
V. Dolin, O. Kopylenko, Zabulonov Yu.L.
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γ-H2AX Kinetic Profile in Mouse Lymphocytes Exposed to the Internal Emitters Cesium-137 and Strontium-90. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In the event of a dirty bomb scenario or an industrial nuclear accident, a significant dose of volatile radionuclides such as 137Cs and 90Sr may be dispersed into the atmosphere as a component of fallout and inhaled or ingested by hundreds and thousands ...
Helen C Turner +7 more
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How Serious Is Threat of Radiological Terrorism?
Acta Medica, 2009 Radiological terrorism (radioterrorism) is the deliberate use of radiological weapons. These weapons use radioactive materials to disperse and emit ionizing radiation.
Pavel Kuna, Zdeněk Hon, Jiří Patočka
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New approaches to radiation protection
Frontiers in Oncology, 2015 Radioprotectors are compounds that protect against radiation injury when given prior to radiation exposure. Mitigators can protect against radiation injury when given after exposure but before symptoms appear.
Eliot Michael Rosen
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Journal of Radiological Protection, 2020 This work was undertaken to understand what would happen if a high-activity radioactive fragment became embedded in an individual following the use of a crude radiological dispersal device (‘dirty bomb’).
L. Jones +7 more
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Dose-Response, 2010 Planning for and managing radiological terrorism incidents that involve the release of radionuclides from a dirty bomb requires considering the potential lifesaving impact of protective radionuclide decorporation countermeasures (e.g., lung lavage). Lung
Bobby R. Scott
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