Health impacts of large releases of radionuclides [[electronic resource]]
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| Titolo: |
Health impacts of large releases of radionuclides [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester ; ; New York, : J. Wiley & Sons, 1997 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.17 |
| 363.1799 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Radioactive pollution - Health aspects |
| Radioecology | |
| Radioactive pollution - Environmental aspects | |
| Altri autori: |
LakeJ. V
BockGregory
CardewGail
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| Note generali: | "Editors: John V. Lake, Gregory R. Bock (organizers), and Gail Cardew"--Contents. |
| "Symposium on health impacts of large releases of radionuclides, held in collaboration with the European Environmental Research Organisation, at the Hotel St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia on 27-29 February 1996"--Contents. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | HEALTH IMPACTS OF LARGE RELEASES OF RADIONUCLIDES; Contents; Participants; Introduction; Physical transport and chemical and biological processes in agricultural systems; The radioecological significance of semi-natural ecosvstems; General discussion I; Transport and processes in freshwater ecosystems; Radioactive contamination of the marine environment; Impacts on plant and animal populations; General discussion II; Roles of micro-organisms in the environmental fate of radionuclides; The fate and impact of radiocontaminants in urban areas |
| Internal exposure of populations to long-lived radionuclides released into the environmentGeneral discussion III; Interactions with human nutrition and other indices of population health; Biological effects of prenatal irradiation; Late somatic health effects; Retrospective radiation dose assessment: an overview of physical and biological measures of dose; Cytogenetic effects as quantitative indicators of radiation exposure; Mental health, stress and risk perception: insights from psychological research; Final discussion; Summary; Index of contributors; Subject index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This up-to-the-minute account examines how radionuclides affect human health. It explores how radionuclides travel through various food chains and how they are transported throughout the terrestrial and aquatic environments. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Health impacts of large releases of radionuclides |
| ISBN: | 1-282-34801-9 |
| 9786612348013 | |
| 0-470-51500-7 | |
| 0-470-51527-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910830088503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 203.