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Radioactive fallout
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Goldman, Marvin Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Davis, California.
Last reviewed:September 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.568600
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Material settling from a radioactive plume and its subsequent surface deposition. Whenever radioactive materials become airborne, either from a nuclear device detonation (see illustration) or from a nuclear release accident, the resultant contaminated atmospheric plume will ultimately return radioactivity to the Earth's surface.
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