Chernobyl Liquidators. The People and the Doses
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Oleg V. Belyakov, Friedrich Steinhäusler and Klaus-Rüdiger Trott Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust, PO Box 100, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex HA6 2JR, UK, E-mail: [email protected]; Institute of Physic and Biophysics, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstraße 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria, E-mail: [email protected]; Department of Radiation Biology, St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ, UK, E-mail: [email protected]
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