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Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century

By J. Samuel Walker

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780520924840
DOI
10.1525/9780520924840
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15046533 bytes)
Pages
182\180
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 19:27:20

Description

How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts to ensure radiation safety for nuclear workers and for the general public. The risks of radiation—caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, effluents from nuclear power, or radioactivity from other sources—have aroused more sustained controversy and public fear than any other comparable industrial or environmental hazard. Walker clarifies the entire radiation debate, showing that permissible dose levels are a key to the principles and practices that have prevailed in the field of radiation protection since the 1930s, and to their highly charged political and scientific history as well.

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