TY - BOOK ID - 61116924 TI - Airborne radioactive contamination in inhabited areas PY - 2009 SN - 1282309269 9786612309267 008091425X 0080449891 9780080449890 PB - Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier Science, DB - UniCat KW - Radioactive pollution. KW - Urban pollution. KW - Pollution KW - Environmental radioactivity KW - Nuclear pollution KW - Radioactivity, Environmental KW - Radioactive substances KW - Radioecology KW - Radioactive waste disposal UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61116924 AB - Traditionally, urban radioecology has had much less attention than agricultural radioecology. Actually, this is the first ever holistic ""guidebook"" on the topic. This is in spite of the fact that some 260,000 persons were removed from their homes after the Chernobyl accident, to some extent because of the consequences of the contamination were not fully understood. Naturally the social and economical repercussions were immense. Also in the context of meeting the current threat of terrorist attacks, in the form of so-called 'dirty bombs' (radioactivity dispersion devices), a thorough understa ER -