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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.: 9910144256103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ciba Foundation symposium ; ; 203.