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- catalog abstract ""In Permissible Dose, 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. Clearly the risk of exposure to radiation, even in small doses, has aroused more sustained controversy and public fear than any other comparable industrial or environmental hazard, but this was not always so. The discovery of x-rays and natural radioactivity in the 1890s was greeted with enthusiasm, which turned to apprehension as evidence about the dangers of radiation gradually accumulated. What was known, and when, and what was done about it, is a major twentieth-century story reflecting a complex interaction of scientific and political issues." "By clarifying the nature of the radiation debate, Walker puts in perspective the public's intense fear of radiation, whether in response to fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, effluents from nuclear power or radioactivity from other sources. Permissible dose levels are a key to the principles and practices that have developed in the field of radiation protection since the 1930s, and to their highly charged political and scientific history as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "History of radiation protection in the twentieth century".
- catalog contributor b11826349.
- catalog contributor b11826350.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""By clarifying the nature of the radiation debate, Walker puts in perspective the public's intense fear of radiation, whether in response to fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, effluents from nuclear power or radioactivity from other sources. Permissible dose levels are a key to the principles and practices that have developed in the field of radiation protection since the 1930s, and to their highly charged political and scientific history as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""In Permissible Dose, 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. Clearly the risk of exposure to radiation, even in small doses, has aroused more sustained controversy and public fear than any other comparable industrial or environmental hazard, but this was not always so. The discovery of x-rays and natural radioactivity in the 1890s was greeted with enthusiasm, which turned to apprehension as evidence about the dangers of radiation gradually accumulated. What was known, and when, and what was done about it, is a major twentieth-century story reflecting a complex interaction of scientific and political issues."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-160).".
- catalog description "The discovery of radiation and its hazards -- The debate over nuclear power and radiation -- The role of federal agencies in radiation protection -- New controversies, new standards -- The ambiguities of radiation effects.".
- catalog extent "xii, 168 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Permissible dose.".
- catalog identifier "0520223284 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Permissible dose.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ; [Washington, D.C.? : Nuclear Regulatory Commission],".
- catalog relation "Permissible dose.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "2000 N-340".
- catalog subject "363.17/996/0904 21".
- catalog subject "Nuclear Energy legislation & jurisprudence United States.".
- catalog subject "Nuclear energy Law and legislation United States History.".
- catalog subject "Radiation Dosage United States.".
- catalog subject "Radiation Dosage.".
- catalog subject "Radiation Effects.".
- catalog subject "Radiation Protection United States History.".
- catalog subject "Radiation Safety measures History.".
- catalog subject "TK9152 .W35 2000".
- catalog subject "WN 11 AA1 W181p 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "The discovery of radiation and its hazards -- The debate over nuclear power and radiation -- The role of federal agencies in radiation protection -- New controversies, new standards -- The ambiguities of radiation effects.".
- catalog title "History of radiation protection in the twentieth century".
- catalog title "Permissible dose : a history of radiation protection in the twentieth century / J. Samuel Walker.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".