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Body Burdens of Cesium-137 and Potassium-40 in Twenty-One Members of the Wintering Party of the 16th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition 1975

open access: yesAntarctic Record, 1975
The radioactive nuclides in human body are roughly classified into two categories. The one is naturally existed radioactive nuclides, and the other is radioactive nuclides of fallout from the nuclear fission of a large scale such as tests of nuclear ...
Mitsumasa MIYASHITA   +2 more
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From “Modern Midas Mineral” to “Satanic Substance”: Uranium, Unions, and the Atomic Age

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 4, Page 735-752, December 2025.
Uranium mining and export was a major flashpoint for political debate in 1970's Australia. However, there has been relatively little investigation into how uranium was understood and contested before this time. This paper draws on labour movement publications and other archival sources to reveal lesser‐known antecedents to the anti‐uranium movement in ...
Nicholas Herriot
wiley   +1 more source

Alpha-radioactive isotopes in the marine environment.

open access: yes, 1975
Includes bibliographical references.Various marine organisms collected from southern hemisphere waters around Cape Town were analysed by radiochemistry and alpha-spectrometry for Pu-239, 240.
Higgo, Jennifer Joan Wynne
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Radioactive fallout [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
Potential radiation doses from several scenarios involving nuclear attack on an unsheltered United States population are calculated for local, intermediate time scale and long-term fallout.
Harvey, T. F.   +2 more
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DYNAMICS OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION OF AGRICULTURAL FOOD PRODUCTS AND NATURAL FOODSTUFFS AFTER THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT

open access: yesРадиационная 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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A case study of radioactive fallout [PDF]

open access: yes, 1963
CER63ERR7.January 1963.Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-35).Prepared for the U.S. Navy Weather Research Facility, Norfork, V. A.During September 1961 a series of balloon ascents made from Flin Flon, Canada, carrying scintillation counters ...
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, publisher   +3 more
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Simplified Radioactive Fallout Detector

open access: yes, 1959
A method for the detection and measurement of radioactive fallout through the use of film badges is described. Differences in exposure are determined by measuring transmitted light through the processed film.
Paul, Janet S.
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CLOSE-IN FALLOUT

open access: yes, 1957
The phenomenon of radioactive fallout from an atomic explosion is described, and a quantitative technique for determining the distribution of radioactive material on the ground is developed.
R. R. Rapp   +2 more
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Radiocesium in lichens and reindeer after the Chernobyl accident

open access: yesRangifer, 1990
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
doaj   +1 more source

Accountability after Nuclear War: Why Not Plan Ahead?

open access: yesJournal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020
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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