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.

• Cover,
• Comments,
• Radiation,
• Ionizing Radiaion,
• Radiation at Cellular Level, Radiaiion Risk,
• Radiation History, Front Line,s First Gram of Plutonium,
• Future of Plutonium, Human Studies,
• Human Plutonium Studies,
• Radium, Plutonium in Tissue.
• Karen Silkwood. LANL tracer experiments.
• Children Experiments.
• Detectors,
• Ethic Considerations,
• Photo Credits.

A free Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF files can be found here.

Radiation Safety Organizations

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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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