Permissible Dose : A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century / / J. Samuel Walker

• Autore: Walker J. Samuel
• 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 genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.: 9910455034603321
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