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   Basic Books

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1960
Subjects:   Radioactive Fallout
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books on: (Radioactive Fallout)  - 1112 results

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Fallout: A Study of Superbombs, Strontium 90, and Survival
Book by John M. Fowler; Basic Books, 1960
Subjects: Radioactive Fallout
...have taken the hazard of radioactive fallout as our main theme. There...the title The Nature of Radioactive Fallout and Its Effects on Man...the body, such as the radioactive products in fallout--strontium, cesium, barium...
2.
The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living near Nuclear Reactors: Breast Cancer, AIDS, Low Birthweights, and Other Radiation-Induced Immune Deficiency Effects
Book by Jay M. Gould; Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996
Subjects: Immunodeficiency--Complications, Immunosuppression--Risk Factors, Nuclear Reactors--Health Aspects, Radioactive Fallout--Health Aspects
...Health aspects. 2. Radioactive fallout-- Health aspects. 3...delayed effects of radioactive emissions on public health. FALLOUT AND THE NEWBORN There...examples of high levels of radioactive fallout from one test called...
3.
Nuclear Imperatives and Public Trust: Dealing with Radioactive Waste
Book by Luther J. Carter; Resources For The Future, 1988
Subjects: Radioactive Waste Disposal--Government Policy--Case Studies, Radioactive Waste Disposal--Government Policy--United States
...Political Compromise--with Political Fallout 293 ; The Nuclear Referendum...management and in the details of how radioactive wastes are generated throughout the...and for managing spent fuel and other radioactive wastes produced in the process. It...
4.
Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste: Citizens' Views of Repository Siting
Book by Riley E. Dunlap, Michael E. Kraft, Eugene A. Rosa; Duke University Press, 1993
Subjects: Public Opinion--United States, Radioactive Waste Sites--Location--Public Opinion, Radioactive Wastes--Public Opinion
...reporting radiological accidents involving radioactive materials Kendalls Tau 253...successful implementation of a high-level radioactive waste repository program will be possible...concerned about the risks associated with radioactive waste and deeply skeptical of DOE plans...
5.
Demanding Democracy after Three Mile Island
Book by Raymond L. Goldsteen, John K. Schorr; University Presses of Florida, 1991
Subjects: Community Organization--Pennsylvania--Goldsboro, Community Organization--Pennsylvania--Newberry (Township), Environmental Policy--Pennsylvania--Goldsboro--Citizen Participation, Environmental Policy--Pennsylvania--Newberry (Township)--Citizen Participation, Nuclear Power Plants--Accidents--Social Aspects--Pennsylvania--Harrisburg Region, Radioactive Pollution--Pennsylvania--Harrisburg Region, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.)
...Island Nuclear Power Plant Pa. 6. Radioactive pollution -- Pennsylvania -- Harrisburg...apprehensive about the possible effects of radioactive releases from the plant, but this seemed...generation of new heat, the decaying radioactive materials left from the fission process...
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journal articles on: (Radioactive Fallout)  - 103 results

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NIMBY and Maybe: Conflict and Cooperation in the Siting of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities in the United States and Canada
Journal article by Barry G. Rabe, William Gunderson, Hilary Frazer, John M. Gillroy; Environmental Law, Vol. 24, 1994
Subjects: NIMBY syndrome--Comparative method, Radioactive waste sites--Political aspects
...in the siting of low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities...3. Political Fallout...repository for mixed low-level radioactive and hazardous wastes, even...LLRW dump.(83) 3. Political Fallout After these hearings, the...
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Marshall Islands: America's Radioactive "Trust" a Photographic Essay
Journal article by Bob Marks, Rob Steven, Ben Kerkvliet, Paresh Chattopadhyay; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 14, 1982
Subjects: Asia
...hundreds of Marshallese on nearby islands with radioactive fallout. Today, many people suffer from a high incidence...Commission reported in 1957: "Even though . . . the radioactive contamination of Rongelap is considered perfectly...
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Chernobyl Fallout and Outcome of Pregnancy in Finland
Journal article by Anssi Auvinen, Mikko Vahteristo, Hannu Arvela, Matti Suomela, Tua Rahola, Matti Hakama, Tapio Rytomaa; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, 2001
Subjects: Finland
...atmospheric releases affected the fallout patterns. The population...taking into account both radioactive decay and washout effect...account washout effect and radioactive decay. Furthermore, the contribution of fallout from atmospheric atomic...
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Radiation Risk to Future Generations from Long-Lived Radioactive Waste
Journal article by Neil J. Nusbaum; Journal of Community Health, Vol. 31, 2006
Subjects: Nuclear energy--Environmental aspects, Nuclear industry--Environmental aspects, Radiation exposure--Health aspects
...potential designs for the blanket of a fusion reactor, the radioactive waste material generated by fusion will pose far less environmental...the extensive historical studies done of decay products in fallout from nuclear weapons testing where the products of initial...
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Economic Fallout: As the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex Continues to Shrink, Local Governments Are Feeling the Fiscal Squeeze
Journal article by Karen Lowrie, Michael Greenberg, Michael Frisch; Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Vol. 14, 1999
Subjects: Defense spending--Analysis, Economic development--Analysis, Nuclear industry--Economic aspects, Nuclear weapons--Production management, United States. Department of Energy--Management
...though all of these sites have dangerous radioactive materials and the potential for, if...Council, Social and Economic Aspects of Radioactive Waste Disposal (Washington, DC: National...established in 1950 to produce special radioactive isotopes using its five nuclear reactors...
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Chernobyl Fallout; Time to Dispel the Nuclear Cloud
Magazine article by Harvey Wasserman; The Nation, Vol. 242, May 24, 1986
Subjects: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant--Accidents, Chernobyl, Ukraine, Nuclear Accident, 1986--Political aspects, Nuclear power plants--Accidents, Radioactive fallout--Political aspects, Radioactive pollution--Political aspects
...Cloud Both radioactive and political fallout from the Chernobyl...thyroid gland; radioactive iodine emits...Path of T.M.I. Fallout, March 7, 1981...account the other fallout elements, such...absorption of the radioactive iodine, which...
2.
Biker Takes on the Military
Magazine article by Will Fantle; The Progressive, Vol. 58, April 1994
Subjects: Environmental movement--Investigations, Radioactive fallout--Wisconsin, Radioactive tracers--Investigations, Smith, Dick--Investigations, Wisconsin--Health aspects
...a history of radioactive fallout testing at Fort...the simulated fallout. Army and civilian...swept up the radioactive material, before...painted boards with radioactive lanthanum and...about McCoys fallout tests are unfolding...
3.
Chernobyl: 3 Years After
Magazine article by Dixie Farley, Vern Modeland, Dori Stehlin; FDA Consumer, Vol. 23, April 1989
Subjects: Chernobyl, Ukraine, Nuclear Accident, 1986--History, Nuclear power plants--Accidents, Radioactive fallout--Safety and security measures
...term harm to health and the environment. No significant fallout problems were expected in the United States but, for extra...cheese, which was subsequently detained." (The rain had washed radioactive particles out of the sky and onto crops and forage.) The...
4.
In the Middle of a Chain Reaction
Magazine article by Nick Middleton; Geographical, Vol. 72, December 2000
Subjects: Chernobyl, Ukraine--Accidents, Energy industry--Management, Nuclear industry--Management, Nuclear reactors--Accidents, Power plants--Ukraine, Radioactive fallout--Health aspects, Radioactivity--Environmental aspects
...the nuclear fallout that had been...driving a car". Radioactive contamination...Chernobyl, because radioactive caesium from the fallout of the 1986...exposure to the radioactive cloud and carcinogenesis...was caused by fallout in eastern France...
5.
NASA's Nuclear Gamble
Magazine article by Karl Grossman; The Progressive, Vol. 61, September 1997
Subjects: Cassini (Space probe)--Safety and security measures, Plutonium--Environmental aspects, Radioactive fallout--Environmental aspects, Rockets (Aeronautics)--Launching, Saturn probes--Safety and security measures, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Management
...byproduct in nuclear power plants. It is another isotope, Plutonium-238, which is 280 times more radioactive than Plutonium-239. It is more radioactive because it has a far shorter half-life, 87.8 years compared to 24,500 years for Plutonium-239...
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RADIOACTIVE SUNDAY LUNCH; EXCLUSIVE: Even after Two Decades, Nuclear Fallout from the Chernobyl Power Station Disaster Still Lurks within Lambs Destined for Scots Tables
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 26, 2005
Subjects: Nuclear energy
RADIOACTIVE SUNDAY LUNCH; EXCLUSIVE...Two Decades, Nuclear Fallout from the Chernobyl...the extent to which radioactive pollution and fallout from the accident...farms affected by the fallout have been grazing...sold because of high radioactive readings. But some...
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Tyranny Is Only One of Belarus' Woes: Others Include Communism-Induced Poverty, AIDS, Chernobyl Fallout
Newspaper article by Martin Sieff; The Washington Times, November 30, 1996
Subjects: Belarus, Lukashenko, Alexander
...Ukraine, prevailing winds blew the bulk of the radioactive fallout over Belarus. The Minsk government estimates...genetic defects from it. "We got 70 percent of the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl because we were downwind of the...
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Fallout Would Have Hit Brum
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), May 16, 2004
...massive dirty bomb with nuclear fallout spreading over hundreds of...an estimated 2,000 tons of radioactive graphite. Travelling at 150...fire would send plumes of radioactive material into the atmosphere...could all be affected by the fallout, which could spread over hundreds...
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Sunday Mercury Investigates: FALLOUT WOULD HAVE HIT BRUM
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), May 16, 2004
...massive dirty bomb with nuclear fallout spreading over hundreds of...an estimated 2,000 tons of radioactive graphite. Travelling at 150...fire would send plumes of radioactive material into the atmosphere...could all be affected by the fallout, which could spread over hundreds...
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Nuclear Boss Who Must Prevent Any Fallout from Blair's Atomic Ambitions
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 27, 2006
...Boss Who Must Prevent Any Fallout from Blairs Atomic Ambitions...executive. Given the mountains of radioactive material his organisation...is on top of Britains own radioactive inheritance. A particularly...legacy. In the 1960s and 1970s radioactive material created during fuel...
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encyclopedia articles on: (Radioactive Fallout)  - 10 results

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1.
Fallout
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
FALLOUT minute particles of radioactive material produced by nuclear explosions (see...particles may stay in the atmosphere for years. Radioactive decay products in fallout include strontium-90, potassium-40, carbon-14...
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Nuclear Weapons
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...arsenal. Over a dozen other countries can, or soon could, make nuclear weapons. In addition to the danger of radioactive fallout , in the 1970s scientists began investigating the potential impact of nuclear war on the environment. The collective...
3.
Hydrogen Bomb
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...a less fissionable tamper, and therefore less radioactive fallout . Carrying this progression further would result...effects and a hail of lethal neutrons but almost no radioactive fallout; this theoretically would cause minimal physical...
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Atomic Bomb
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...products are borne into the upper atmosphere as dust or gas and may subsequently be deposited partially decayed as radioactive fallout far from the site of the explosion. See disarmament, nuclear ; hydrogen bomb ; nuclear strategy ; and...
5.
Civil Defense
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...encourage war hysteria. Proponents of civil defense have asserted that, since a major danger from a nuclear attack is radioactive fallout, an adequate shelter program can save the lives of a large portion of the population. After the beginnings of...
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