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The effect of solar radiation on the spread of radioactive products from nuclear explosions in the atmosphere

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The effect is discussed of solar radiation on the motion of radioactive aerosols in the lower atmosphere, and also on the transfer process of aerosol particles from the stratosphere to the troposphere.

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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 130–136, August, 1964

The present paper is a short account of [1], undertaken by the author in 1959–1960 during his period of office as scientific secretary to the Radiation Committee of the United Nations in New York. The basic proposals of this paper were reported at the Seminar on Nuclear Meteorology at the University of New York in May, 1960.

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Simonenko, D.L. The effect of solar radiation on the spread of radioactive products from nuclear explosions in the atmosphere. At Energy 17, 838–844 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01118061

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