Mass media communication of emergency issues and countermeasures in a nuclear accident: Fukushima reporting in European newspapers

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Mass media communication of emergency issues and countermeasures in a nuclear accident: Fukushima reporting in European newspapers. / Gallego, Eduardo; Cantone, Marie Claire; Oughton, Deborah; Perko, Tanja; Prezelj, Iztok; Tomkiv, Yevgeniya.

In: Radiation protection dosimetry, Vol. 173, No. 1-3, 01.04.2017, p. 163-169.

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Harvard

Gallego, E, Cantone, MC, Oughton, D, Perko, T, Prezelj, I & Tomkiv, Y 2017, 'Mass media communication of emergency issues and countermeasures in a nuclear accident: Fukushima reporting in European newspapers', Radiation protection dosimetry, vol. 173, no. 1-3, pp. 163-169. https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncw334

APA

Gallego, E., Cantone, M. C., Oughton, D., Perko, T., Prezelj, I., & Tomkiv, Y. (2017). Mass media communication of emergency issues and countermeasures in a nuclear accident: Fukushima reporting in European newspapers. Radiation protection dosimetry, 173(1-3), 163-169. https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncw334

Vancouver

Gallego E, Cantone MC, Oughton D, Perko T, Prezelj I, Tomkiv Y. Mass media communication of emergency issues and countermeasures in a nuclear accident: Fukushima reporting in European newspapers. Radiation protection dosimetry. 2017 Apr 1;173(1-3):163-169. https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncw334

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Gallego, Eduardo ; Cantone, Marie Claire ; Oughton, Deborah ; Perko, Tanja ; Prezelj, Iztok ; Tomkiv, Yevgeniya. / Mass media communication of emergency issues and countermeasures in a nuclear accident: Fukushima reporting in European newspapers. In: Radiation protection dosimetry. 2017 ; Vol. 173, No. 1-3. pp. 163-169.

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