John V. Lake & Gregory R. Bock 
Health Impacts of Large Releases of Radionuclides [PDF ebook] 

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.

Innehållsförteckning

Partial table of contents:

Physical Transport and Chemical and Biological Processes in
Agricultural Systems (G. Voigt).

Radioactive Contamination of the Marine Environment (A.
Aarkrog).

Roles of Micro-Organisms in the Environmental Fate of
Radionuclides (G. Gadd).

Interactions with Human Nutrition and Other Indices of
Population Health (A. Cigna).

Biological Effects of Prenatal Irradiation (C. Streffer).

Late Somatic Health Effects (H. Paretzke).

Cytogenetic Effects as Quantitative Indicators of Radiation
Exposure (M. Bauchinger).

Mental Health, Stress and Risk Perception: Insights from
Psychological Research (O. Renn).

Indexes.

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