Permissible dose : a history of radiation protection in the twentieth century / / J. Samuel Walker
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| Autore: |
Walker J. Samuel
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| Titolo: |
Permissible dose : a history of radiation protection in the twentieth century / / J. Samuel Walker
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2000] |
| ©2001 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.17/996/0904 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nuclear energy - Law and legislation - United States - History |
| Radiation - Safety measures - History | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | atomic |
| effluents | |
| environmental hazard | |
| fallout | |
| industrial hazard | |
| manufacturing | |
| nuclear bomb testing | |
| nuclear plants | |
| nuclear power | |
| nuclear workers | |
| pollution | |
| public fear | |
| public health | |
| public safety | |
| radiation doses | |
| radiation poisoning | |
| radiation protection standards | |
| radiation safety | |
| radiation | |
| radioactivity | |
| science | |
| scientific history | |
| Classificazione: | AR 25700 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- I. The Discovery of Radiation and Its Hazards -- 2. The Debate over Nuclear Power and Radiation -- 3. The Role of Federal Agencies in Radiation Protection -- 4. New Controversies, New Standards -- 5. The Ambiguities of Radiation Effects -- Essay on Sources -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 1930's, and to their highly charged political and scientific history as well. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Permissible dose |
| ISBN: | 9786612356292 |
| 1-282-35629-1 | |
| 0-520-92484-3 | |
| 1-59734-804-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828956103321 |
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