Permissible dose : a history of radiation protection in the twentieth century / J. Samuel Walker.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Walker, J. Samuel.

Contributor:

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radiation--Safety measures--History.

Radiation.

Nuclear energy--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Nuclear energy.

Nuclear energy--Law and legislation.

History.

Radiation--Safety measures.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

History of radiation protection in the twentieth century

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ; [Washington, D.C.?] : [Nuclear Regulatory Commission], 2000.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Shipping list no.: 2001-0011-P.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index.

ISBN:

0520223284

OCLC:

43567611