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Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2018 Experimentally and theoretically determined shielding factors for a common light construction dwelling type were obtained and compared. Sources of the gamma-emitting radionuclides 60Co and 137Cs were positioned around and on top of a modular building to ...
Y. Hinrichsen +4 more
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Радиационная гигиена, 2020 The recent years are associated with active development of the coastal areas of the Russian arctic regions including a construction of the facilities of the extraction and processing of the hydrocarbons, the civil and military facilities.
V. V. Omelchuk
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Clean Air Journal, 2018 Windblown dust can contain radioactive materials from mining. These radionuclides when inhaled in dust produce ionizing radiation which damages the cells and tissues in the body.
Violet P. Dudu +2 more
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Geophysical Research Letters, 2012 The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident resulted in extensive radioactive contamination of the surrounding forests. In this study, we analyzed fallout 137Cs, 134Cs, and 131I in rainwater, throughfall, and stemflow in coniferous forest ...
Hiroaki Kato, Yuichi Onda, Takashi Gomi
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East European Journal of Physics, 2021 In consequence of nuclear accidents that have occurred in various parts of the world, radioactive contamination of the environment is observed. The risks of spreading pollution can increase during floods, fires and some natural disasters.
Maryna F. Коzhevnikova +1 more
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Fukushima and Ocean Radioactivity [PDF]
Oceanography, 2014 The triple disaster of the March 11, 2011, earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent radiation releases from Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant were unprecedented events for the ocean and society. In this article, the radioactive releases from this
Ken O. Buesseler
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Preparing for the Bomb: The Development of Civil Defence Policy in Canada, 1948–1963 [PDF]
, 2012 During the period 1948 to 1963 civil defence in Canada developed in a number of stages that reflected changes in technology, weaponry and scientific discovery.
Davidson, Mark
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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Contaminants in food chains of arctic ungulates: what have we learned from the Chernobyl accident?
Rangifer, 1998 The Chernobyl accidenr of 1986 caused radioactive contamination of widespread areas of reindeer pasture in Scandinavia. Reindeer {Rangifer tarandus) are especially exposed to radioactive fallout due to their wintet diet, of which lichens are an important
Birgitta Åhman
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Assessment of the radiological impact of a decommissioning nuclear power plant in Italy [PDF]
, 2016 The assessment of the radiological impact of a decommissioning Nuclear Power Plant is presented here through the results of an environmental monitoring survey carried out in the area surrounding the Garigliano Power Plant.
D'Onofrio, A. +9 more
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