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

by J. Samuel Walker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520223284
• ISBN13: 9780520223288
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 5.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"