Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century
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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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520223284
ISBN13:9780520223288
Release Date:November 2000
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:182 Pages
Weight:5.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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