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A compartment model has been constructed to depict the principal routes of131I transfer from fallout to man. Thyroid accumulation and excretion have been modelled for cow and for man. A simulation is carried out of the major fallout during the fall of 1962, following tests of nuclear weapons, and the results are compared with experimental data for southern Scandinavia.
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Sørensen, B. Computer simulation of131I transfer from fallout to man. Water Air Soil Pollut 4, 65–87 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01794131
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