Evaluation of the radiation dose due to the use of fly ash from thermal power plants as a building material

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Issue		Radioprotection Volume 51, Number 2, April-June 2016


Page(s)		135 - 140
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/radiopro/2016018
Published online		26 May 2016

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