Radiation and Radiation Biology
Best Information Sources
Radiation Safety Organizations
Chernobyl
Cosmic Rays
Other World Wide Web Resources
Facts and Opinions on Nuclear Power Industry
Best Information Sources
- A Los Alamos Science publication Radiation Protection and the Human Radiation Experiments . This is a very good introduction to radiation and radiation biology. This publication is available in PDF format.
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- Cover,
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- Comments,
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- Radiation,
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- Ionizing Radiaion,
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- Radiation at Cellular Level, Radiaiion Risk,
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- Radiation History, Front Line,s First Gram of Plutonium,
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- Future of Plutonium, Human Studies,
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- Human Plutonium Studies,
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- Radium, Plutonium in Tissue.
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- Karen Silkwood. LANL tracer experiments.
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- Children Experiments.
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- Detectors,
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- Ethic Considerations,
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- Photo Credits.
- A free Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF files can be found here.
Radiation Safety Organizations
In Progress
Chernobyl
- Facts about the Chernobyl Disaster
- Chernobyl Ten Years On: Radiological and Health Impact. A report by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency.
Cosmic Rays
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Other World Wide Web Resources
- NS Standards - Safety standards publications from the American Nuclear Society.
- Mucal on the web - Calculation of the xray absorbtion coefficients for a given element and energy.
- Radiaion Effects Research Foundation A cooperative U.S. and Japanese foundation for the study of the effects of radiation of man. The followup studies on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are referenced here.
- pinions on Nuclear Power
- Nuclear Reaction Web site for the recent Frontline show on the Nuclear Power industry.
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