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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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Global risk of radioactive fallout after nuclear reactor accidents
Introduction Conclusions ...
D. Kunkel, J. Lelieveld, M. Lawrence
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Scanning of Vehicles for Nuclear Materials
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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In this study, we used a novel approach to combine the use of tree‐ring and pollution chronologies along with microfossil analysis to characterize saltwater intrusion and its influence on the process of ghost forest formation in a bald cypress wetland.
Kendra Devereux +5 more
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Nuclear Holocaust in American Films [PDF]
Ordinary people shudder at the thought that people in positions of power might do whatever they think they can get away with. But that is often the way it is in the real world, and the risks go even higher when opportunity is ...
Byrne, Edmund
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Radiocesium in lichens and reindeer after the Chernobyl accident
After the Chernobyl accident the sampling and measuring program of the Finnish Centre for Radiation and Nuclear Safety was intensified both for surveillance and research purposes. The deposition pattern of radionuclides was more complicated than from the
K. Rissanen, T. Rahola
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Accountability after Nuclear War: Why Not Plan Ahead?
If nuclear war occurs, non-belligerents want the conductors to take responsibility for providing assistance to deal with harm imposed on them. This harm could take the form of radioactive fallout, climatic change that causes global food shortages and ...
George Perkovich
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Previous studies conducted by the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being (Rospotrebnadzor) in Sakhalin Region, Russia in 2011–2012 have shown that soils on the southern Kuril Islands were contaminated with ...
V. P. Ramzaev, A. N. Barkovsky
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The effects of strontium-90 on mice [PDF]
On Sept. 19, 1958 there was published in Science a paper by Dr. Miriam P. Finkel of Argonne National Laboratory in which she communicated her observations on the effects of strontium-90 injected into mice on life expectancy and on incidence of tumors of ...
Kamb, Barclay, Pauling, Linus
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Concentration of 90Sr in grain on fuel traces of the Chornobyl radioactive fallout [PDF]
During 2012 - 2014 sampling of soil and grain in Ivankiv district of Kyiv region at all fields adjacent to the ChNPP exclusion zone was carried out, where the cereal crops were planted. In all samples 137Сs and 90Sr activities were mea¬sured.
L. N. Otreshko +2 more
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