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Scanning of Vehicles for Nuclear Materials
, 2013 Might a nuclear-armed terrorist group or state use ordinary commerce to deliver a nuclear weapon by smuggling it in a cargo container or vehicle? This delivery method would be the only one available to a sub-state actor, and it might enable a state to ...
Katz, J. I.
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Advancement in agriculture through radioisotopes: Current context, challenges and future directions
Journal of Agriculture and Food ResearchRadioisotopes have revolutionized agriculture, leading to new nutrients management methods, crop improvement models, and the recent pests control methods, such as the Sterile Insect Technique.
Basanta Neupane +7 more
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Technology for detecting heavy metals in the soil using an ionometer [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesFor the first time in the Article, new methods for determining heavy metals in the soil using an ionometer were covered, the acid-base properties of the soil were determined.
Saitkulov Foziljon +4 more
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Informing, teaching or propagandising? Combining Environmental and Science Studies for undergraduates [PDF]
, 2002 This article discusses recent experiences in the integrated teaching of Environmental Studies and Science Studies in a generalist curriculum at a new university campus in Scotland.
Johnston, S.F.
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Радиационная гигиена, 2016 The article contains the results of current internal exposure dose assessment for the citizens of some Bryansk region settlements affected by radioactive contamination due to the accident at Chernobyl NPP, obtained with the use of three different ...
A. V. Gromov
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Recovery of Food Production from Radioactive Contamination Caused by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
, 2023 AbstractThe disastrous accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) in 2011 caused the release of significant amounts of radioactive waste, resulting in radiological (mainly radioactive cesium) contamination in the surrounding forests, agricultural fields, and residential areas.To ensure the safety of ...
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, 2003 Cadmium (Cd) is a well-known nephrotoxic environmental contaminant but there are indications that the developing nervous system might be even more sensitive to Cd than the kidneys in adults.
Eklund, Gunilla
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Coping with Stigma: Challenges & Opportunities [PDF]
, 1999 This paper discusses several strategies for preventing technological stigma from causing unwarranted bias in public decision ...
Kunreuther, Howard, Slovic, Paul
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Радиационная гигиена, 2017 The present work is devoted to an analysis of the data on dynamics of 137Cs and 90Sr transfer factors in the most critical (during different time periods after the radioactive fallout) links of the food chain that are necessary for assessing current ...
V. N. Shutov +4 more
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The consequences of Chernobyl accident [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Military Medicine, 2016 These days marks 30 years since the Chernobyl nuclear accident, followed by massive radioactive contamination of the environment and human in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, and resulted in many deaths among people who intervened to decrease the effects ...
Ion Chioșilă
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