Estimation of thyroid doses and health risks resulting from the intake of radioactive iodine in foods and drinking water by the citizens of Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear accident

Title: Estimation of thyroid doses and health risks resulting from the intake of radioactive iodine in foods and drinking water by the citizens of Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear accident
Author: Murakami, Michio / Oki, Taikan

Reference: Chemosphere, 87 (11), p.1355-1360, Jun 2012

doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.02.028

Keywords: Cancer risk; Fukushima nuclear power plant accident; Ingestion dose; Internal exposure; I-131; Radionuclides

Abstract: …carcinogen, causing thyroid cancer in particular, the…from fallout from the Chernobyl accident of 1986 had…dose-related increase in thyroid cancer ( Cardis and Hatch…Health effects of the Chernobyl accident for most individuals…

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