| View Larger Image | Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century | Hardcoverby J. Samuel Walker (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | University of California Press | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 189 Pages | | Publication Date: | November 06, 2000 | | Sales Rank: | 1,221,377st |
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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. |
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