Comprehensive whole-body counter surveys of Miharu-town school children for three consecutive years after the Fukushima NPP accident
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Comprehensive whole-body counter surveys of Miharu-town school children for three consecutive years after the Fukushima NPP accident
Comprehensive whole-body counter surveys covering over 93% of the school children between the ages of 6 and 15 in Miharu town, Fukushima Prefecture, have been conducted for three consecutive years, in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Although the results of a questionnaire indicate that approximately 60% of the children have been regularly eating local or home-grown rice, in 2012 and 2013 no child was foun...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0386-2208,1349-2896
DOI: 10.2183/pjab.90.211