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Titolo: | Health impacts of large releases of radionuclides [[electronic resource]] |
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 |
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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