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External and internal irradiation of a Rural Bryansk (Russia) population from 1990 to 2000, following high deposition of radioactive caesium from the chernobyl accident - Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

  • ️Mattsson, S.
  • ️Wed Sep 21 2005

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