Published 1980
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Radiological safety and future land use at the EMU atomic weapons test sites
Description
The distributions and soil concentrations of long-lived radionuclides remaining from nuclear weapons trials conducted at Emu, South Australia, in October 1953 are presented. Radiation levels due to long-lived neutron activation products in soil, 60Co and 152 Eu, occur only in the immediate vicinity of the ground zeros of the two nuclear explosions. It is shown that the levels of contamination due to fallout products in the soil are well below those which would constitute a health hazard to occupants of the area
Additional details
Additional titles
- Subtitle (English)
- AIRAC No. 7
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Australian Government Publishing Service.
- Imprint Place
- Canberra, Australia
- ISBN
- 0 642 04993 9
- Imprint Pagination
- 11 p.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Australia
- Country of Input or Organization
- Australia
- INIS RN
- 12573297
- Subject category
- S58: GEOSCIENCES; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Descriptors DEI
- COBALT 60; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPIUM 152; FALLOUT DEPOSITS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVITY; SOILS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA
- Descriptors DEC
- AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; COBALT ISOTOPES; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; EUROPIUM ISOTOPES; EXPLOSIONS; FALLOUT; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTO; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; RADIOISOTOPES; RARE EARTH NUCLEI; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Notes
- 11 refs.