Published 1993
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Exposures from natural sources of radiation
Creators
Description
This annex describes assessments of radiation doses from natural sources of radiation to members of the public. The assessments include the exposures outdoors and indoors under normal circumstances both at home and at work. Separate sections deal with cosmic radiation, terrestrial radiation, radon, energy production from fossil fuels, especially coal, use of phosphate rocks, and the mining and milling of mineral sands. Refs, 5 figs, 28 tabs
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- UN.
- Imprint Place
- New York, NY (United States)
- ISBN
- 92-1-142200-0
- Imprint Title
- Sources and effects of ionizing radiation
- Imprint Pagination
- 922 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 33-89.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Nations (UN)
- INIS RN
- 25018022
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- COAL; COMPILED DATA; COSMIC RADIATION; DOSE RATES; FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS; HOUSES; HUMAN POPULATIONS; INHALATION; LOW DOSE IRRADIATION; MAN; NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; POWER GENERATION; RADIATION DOSES; RADIUM 226; RADIUM 228; RADON 220; RADON 222; SOILS
- Descriptors DEC
- ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; ANIMALS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BUILDINGS; CARBON 14 DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; DATA; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; ENERGY SOURCES; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; HEAVY ION DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; INFORMATION; INTAKE; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES; IONIZING RADIATIONS; IRRADIATION; ISOTOPES; MAMMALS; MATERIALS; MINERALS; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; POPULATIONS; POWER PLANTS; PRIMATES; RADIATIONS; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIUM ISOTOPES; RADON ISOTOPES; RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; VERTEBRATES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES