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Measurements at Leeds Following the Windscale Reactor Accident: Increase in Background Gamma-Radiation and its Correlation with Iodine-131 in milk

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SPIERS, F. Measurements at Leeds Following the Windscale Reactor Accident: Increase in Background Gamma-Radiation and its Correlation with Iodine-131 in milk. Nature 183, 517–519 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183517a0

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