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Individual quality and phenology mediate the effect of radioactive contamination on body temperature in Chernobyl barn swallows [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Anthropogenic stressors, such as radioactive contaminants released from the Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi accidents, deteriorate ecological and evolutionary processes, as evidence for damaging effects of radioactive contamination on wildlife is ...
Zbyszek Boratyński, Timothy A. Mousseau, Anders Pape Møller   +2 more
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A Novel Method for Remote Depth Estimation of Buried Radioactive Contamination [PDF]

Sensors, 2018
Existing remote radioactive contamination depth estimation methods for buried radioactive wastes are either limited to less than 2 cm or are based on empirical models that require foreknowledge of the maximum penetrable depth of the contamination.
Ikechukwu Kevin Ukaegbu, Kelum A. A. Gamage   +1 more
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Current Measures on Radioactive Contamination in Japan: A Policy Situation Analysis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11th March 2011 and the subsequent Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster caused radioactive contamination in the surrounding environment.
Stuart Gilmour, Shoji Miyagawa, Fumiko Kasuga, Kenji Shibuya   +3 more
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Emerging Environmental Justice Issues in Nuclear Power and Radioactive Contamination. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2016
Nuclear hazards, linked to both U.S. weapons programs and civilian nuclear power, pose substantial environment justice issues. Nuclear power plant (NPP) reactors produce low-level ionizing radiation, high level nuclear waste, and are subject to ...
Kyne D, Bolin B.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Assessment of environmental radioactive surface contamination from a hypothetical nuclear research reactor accident

Heliyon, 2020
The environmental surface contamination by radioactive elements following a nuclear research reactor hypothetical accident is evaluated employing the hotspot code, IAEA safety guide, and NRC guidelines.
Ned Xoubi
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Cervical and Endometrial Cancer Incidence in the Female Population from the Bryansk Region Living in Conditions of Chemical, Radioactive and Combined Environmental Contamination (2000–2020)

Life, 2022
At the end of 36 years after the Chernobyl disaster, about 5 million people still live in the radioactively contaminated territories of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, and the density of radioactive contamination by Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 will remain ...
Anton V. Korsakov, Anna E. Kryukova, Vladislav P. Troshin, Olga Yu. Milushkina, Dmitry G. Lagerev   +4 more
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Measurement of radioactive contamination in the high-resistivity silicon CCDs of the DAMIC experiment [PDF]

Journal of Instrumentation, 2015
We present measurements of radioactive contamination in the high-resistivity silicon charge-coupled devices (CCDs) used by the DAMIC experiment to search for dark matter particles.
Aguilar-Arevalo, A., Amidei, D., Bertou, X., Bole, D., Butner, M., Cancelo, G., Chavarria, A. E., D'Olivo, J. C., Dixon, S., Estrada, J., Haro, M. Sofo, Izraelevitch, F., Kavner, A., Kilminster, B., Lawson, I., Liao, J., López, M., Machado, D. Torres, Molina, J., Moreno-Granados, G., Moroni, G. Fernandez, Neto, J. R. T. de Mello, Pena, J., Privitera, P., Sarkis, Y., Scarpine, V., Schwarz, T., Tiffenberg, J., Torres, K. P. Hernández, Trillaud, F., Vázquez, A. Castañeda, You, X., Zhou, J.   +32 more
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Development of RadRob15, A Robot for Detecting Radioactive Contamination in Nuclear Medicine Departments [PDF]

Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering, 2016
Accidental or intentional release of radioactive materials into the living or working environment may cause radioactive contamination. In nuclear medicine departments, radioactive contamination is usually due to radionuclides which emit high energy gamma
Shafe A., Mortazavi S. M. J., Joharnia A., Safaeyan Gh. H.   +3 more
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Managing Groundwater Radioactive Contamination at the Daiichi Nuclear Plant. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2015
The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 severely damaged three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, leading to a major release of radiation into the environment.
Marui A, Gallardo AH.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Evaluating the Radioactive Waste Produced per Patient by Radiopharmaceutical Sources and Measuring the Radioactive Contamination of Surfaces and Staff at the Bushehr Nuclear Medicine Department [PDF]

Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering
Background: Nuclear medicine is an integral and developing field in diagnosing and treating diseases. Monitoring individuals’ protection and radiation contamination in the workplace is vital for preserving working environments.Objective: This study aimed
Zahra Mohamadi Baghmolaei, Reza Fardid, Masoud Haghani, Gholamhassan Haddadi, Mohammad Abdolahi, Mohammad Ghaderian   +5 more
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