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

Permissible Dose

A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century

By: J. Samuel Walker

Hardcover | 1 November 2000 | Edition Number 1

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How much radiation is too much? The author 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. The author 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 th e1930s, and to their highly charged political and scientific history as well.

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