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The effects on the atmosphere of a major nuclear exchange
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ISBN: 0309035287 9786610222254 1280222255 0309554667 0585149259 9780585149257 9780309035286 Year: 1985 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press


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Severe accidents in nuclear reactors : corium retention technologies and insights
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ISBN: 0128223057 0128223049 9780128223055 9780128223048 Year: 2021 Publisher: Duxford, England : Woodhead Publishing,

Radioactive fallout after nuclear explosions and accidents
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ISBN: 9780080438559 0080438555 9780080540238 0080540236 9786611038052 1281038059 Year: 2002 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier,

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To achieve successful solutions to the problems resulting from local, distant and global radioactive fallout after nuclear explosions and accidents and to achieve successful retrospective analyses of the radiation conditions from recent observations, certain information is needed: the distribution of the exposure dose rate in the atmosphere and in a country; the distribution of radionuclides in natural environments and the nuclide composition of the radioactive fallout; the features of formation of the aerosol particle-carriers of the radioactivity and of the nuclide distribution of the partic


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Fukushima accident : radioactivity impact on the environment
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ISBN: 0124114873 0124081320 1299732410 9781299732414 9780124114876 9780124081321 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier,

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Fukushima Accident presents up-to-date information on radioactivity released to the atmosphere and the ocean after the accident on the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, on the distribution of radionuclides in the world atmosphere and oceans, and their impact on the total environment (man, fauna, and flora). The book will evaluate and discuss the post-Fukushima situation, emphasizing radionuclide impacts on the terrestrial and marine environments, and compare it with the pre-Fukushima sources of radionuclides in the environment. The authors' results, as well as knowledge gathered f

Fallout : Hedley Marston and the British bomb tests in Australia
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ISBN: 1743050925 9781743050927 9781743050903 1743050909 1862545235 9781862545236 Year: 2001 Publisher: Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press,

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Fallout' is the true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Contrary to official pronouncements, radioactive fallout was blowing across the country, contaminating towns and communities, including Adelaide. Cross tells a story that makes us ask the alarming question: could we be fooled again?

Radiological assessments for resettlement of Rongelap in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
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ISBN: 0309050499 9786610195794 1280195797 0309586682 0585142556 9780585142555 9780309050494 Year: 1994 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,

Mortality of veteran participants in the crossroads nuclear test
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ISBN: 0309055962 9786610192090 1280192097 0309589770 0585148953 9780585148953 9780309055963 0309175178 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,


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Downwind : a people's history of the nuclear West
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ISBN: 0803269501 0803269498 9780803269491 9780803269507 080326951X 9780803269514 0803255373 9780803255371 9780803269507 9780803269514 9781496207661 1496207661 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lincoln, Nebraska ; London, England : University of Nebraska Press,

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"In this incredibly important book, Sarah Alisabeth Fox effectively shows how the stories of regular people are to be trusted more than the words of the government and the experts when the latter are lying in a misguided attempt to protect national security."-Doug Brugge, professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine


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Under the radar : cancer and the cold war
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ISBN: 1281801747 9786611801748 081354565X 9780813545653 9781281801746 9780813544045 0813544041 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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At the end of the Second World War, a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence. Sixty years later, it is considered a chronic disease rather than one that is invariably fatal. Although survival rates have improved, the very word continues to evoke a special terror and guilt, inspiring scientists and politicians to wage war against it. In Under the Radar, Ellen Leopold shows how nearly every aspect of our understanding and discussion of cancer bears the imprint of its Cold War entanglement. The current biases toward individual rather than corporate responsibility for rising incidence rates, research that promotes treatment rather than prevention, and therapies that can be patented and marketed all reflect a largely hidden history shaped by the Cold War. Even the language we use to describe the disease, such as the guiding metaphor for treatment, "fight fire with fire," can be traced back to the middle of the twentieth century. Writing in a lucid style, Leopold documents the military, governmental, industrial, and medical views of radiation and atomic energy to examine the postwar response to cancer through the prism of the Cold War. She explores the role of radiation in cancer therapies today, using case studies and mammogram screening, in particular, to highlight the surprising parallels. Taking into account a wide array of disciplines, this book challenges our understanding of cancer and how we approach its treatment. Examines the postwar response to cancer through the prism of the Cold War Goes beyond medical science to look at the influence of Cold War policies on the way we think about cancer today Links the experience of postwar cancer patients with the broader evolution of what have become cancer industries Traces the history of human-made radiation as a state-sponsored environmental toxin

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