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Permissible Dose - History of Radiation Protection

By J. Samuel Walker

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780520223288, 0520223284
Open Library ID
OL7710882M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1959688 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
182\182
Topic
History
Library
russianarms.ru
Time added
2009-07-20 17:55:40

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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