Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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. Read More

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  • 0520223284
  • 9780520223288
  • JS Walker
  • 6 October 2000
  • University of California Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 189
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