Health Effects Attributed to Radon from the Perspective of the Linear No-threshold Hypothesis
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L.A. TRUTA, W. HOFMANN, C. COSMA and DAN RADULESCU 3 1 Babes-Bolyai University, Environmental Radioactivity and Nuclear Dating Group, Fantanele Street, No. 30, 400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2 Division of Physics and Biophysics, Department of Materials Research and Physics, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg, Austria 3 Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Fharmacy, Cluj Napoca, Romania † Corresponding author: [email protected]
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