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  1. Department of Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    John W. Poston Sr.

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  1. University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA

    Nicholas Tsoulfanidis

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Poston, J.W. (2018). Health Physics. In: Tsoulfanidis, N. (eds) Nuclear Energy. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6618-9_17

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