The Windscale reactor accident—50 years on

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Journal of Radiological Protection

• Publication date

  2007-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1088/0952-4746/27/3/E02PMID 17768324
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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