Read complete books and articles on: Radioactive Fallout

Fallout - minute particles of radioactive material produced by nuclear explosions (see atomic bomb; hydrogen bomb; Chernobyl) or by discharge from nuclear-power or atomic installations and scattered throughout the earth's atmosphere by winds and convection currents. Heavier fallout particles tend to settle to earth around the explosion site and downwind from it soon after the explosion

14 of the Best Books and Articles on: Radioactive Fallout

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Fallout: A Study of Superbombs, Strontium 90, and Survival » Read Now
by John M. Fowler. 235 pgs.

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...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...
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The Enemy within: The High Cost of Living near Nuclear Reactors: Breast Cancer, AIDS, Low Birthweights, and Other Radiation-Induced Immune Deficiency Effects (Chap. 8 "Fallout and Breast Cancer") » Read Now
by Jay M. Gould. 346 pgs.

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Recent research in the UK has shown that living near high tension electrical cables can increase the incidence of cancer and leukemia. From the US comes The Enemy Within, which provides evidence of the dangers of living near nuclear reactors.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical, and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings ("Fallout" begins on p. 77) » Read Now
by Eisei Ishikawa, David L. Swain. 706 pgs.

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...for several kilometers from the hypocenter, and radioactive fallout covered even wider areas. Citizens who had lost...fission fragments and the residue of neutron-induced...
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Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands (Discussion of radioactive fallout begins on p. 72) » Read Now
by James N. Yamazaki, Louis B. Fleming. 184 pgs.

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Children of the Atomic Bomb is Dr. Yamazaki's account of a lifelong effort to understand and document the impact of nuclear explosions on children, particularly the children conceived but not yet born at the time of the explosions. Assigned in 1949 as Physician in Charge of the United States Atomic...
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Children of the Atomic Bomb is Dr. Yamazaki's account of a lifelong effort to understand and document the impact of nuclear explosions on children, particularly the children conceived but not yet born at the time of the explosions. Assigned in 1949 as Physician in Charge of the United States Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Nagasaki, Yamazaki had served as a combat surgeon at the Battle of the Bulge where he had been captured and held as a prisoner of war by the Germans. In Japan he was confronted with violence of another dimension - the devastating impact of a nuclear blast and the particularly insidious effects of radiation on children. Yamazaki's story is also one of striking juxtapositions, an account of a Japanese-American's encounter with racism, the story of a man who fought for his country while his parents were interned in a concentration camp in Arkansas.
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The Nuclear Lion: What Every Citizen Should Know about Nuclear Power and Nuclear War ("The Fallout" begins on p. 124) » Read Now
by John Jagger. 375 pgs.

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...in 50 years by the Chernobyl fallout. One must also realize that...die from exposure to radon, a radioactive gas emitted by the natural rock...explosions themselves. And...
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The Atomic Age: Scientists in National and World Affairs. Articles from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 1945-1962 (Chap. 33 "Fallout and Home Defense" and Chap. 34 "Fallout Fallacies") » Read Now
by Morton Grodzins, Eugene Rabinowitch. 616 pgs.

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...continents with a deadly spray of radioactive fallout; if used high enough in the...carry nuclear destruction and radioactive contamination to any point on...undertakings...
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On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site ("Fallout Tracking and Research" begins on p. 190) » Read Now
by Michele Stenehjem Gerber. 334 pgs.

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...so little understood that radioactive and chemical wastes far in...the Pacific Northwest of fallout from American, Russian, English...plant, 1945. The intensely...
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The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945 (Chap. 6 "The Aftermath I: Fallout") » Read Now
by Ferenc Morton Szasz. 236 pgs.

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...were eventually traced to radioactive fallout from the Trinity explosion...experience with airborne radioactive fallout and introduced the uncertainties...involved the...
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Our Synthetic Environment ("Fallout" begins on p. 175) » Read Now
by Lewis Herber. 286 pgs.

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...of X Radiation 165 Fallout 175 The Nuclear Age...of the more familiar industries but radioactive pollutants, the byproducts of peacetime...of the toxicants, physical...
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Illegitimate Sufferers: A-Bomb Victims, Medical Science, and the Government, in Daedalus » Read Now
by Maya Todeschini. 3 pgs.

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...boat was contaminated by radioactive fallout; a member of the crew died...who were contaminated by radioactive fallout from U.S. nuclear testing...who were contaminated by...
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Chernobyl Postmortem: Unresolved Obstacles Continue to Plague the Nuclear Industry, in Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy » Read Now
by Alexey V. Yablokov. 5 pgs.

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...uncertainties over the true level of radioactive fallout, the number of people immediately...territories affected by small doses of radioactive emissions from Chernobyl...
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Chernobyl Fallout and Outcome of Pregnancy in Finland, in Environmental Health Perspectives » Read Now
by Anssi Auvinen, Mikko Vahteristo, Hannu Arvela, Matti Suomela, Tua Rahola, Matti Hakama, Tapio Rytomaa. 7 pgs.

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...atmospheric releases affected the fallout patterns. The population...taking into account both radioactive decay and washout effect...account washout effect and radioactive...
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Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century ("The Fallout Controversy" begins on p. 18) » Read Now
by J. Samuel Walker. 168 pgs.

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"A crisp and compelling assessment of the issues surrounding radiation protection. . . . Walker has a remarkable ability to make complicated issues clear and easy to understand. "--Allan M. Winkler, author of "Life under a Cloud"
"This concise and readable guide to the historical development of...
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"A crisp and compelling assessment of the issues surrounding radiation protection. . . . Walker has a remarkable ability to make complicated issues clear and easy to understand. "--Allan M. Winkler, author of "Life under a Cloud"
"This concise and readable guide to the historical development of radiation protection standards by the federal government is exceptionally even-handed in discussing often controversial issues."--Barton C. Hacker, author of "Elements of Controversy"
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Our Nuclear Future: Facts, Dangers, and Opportunities (Chap. X "The Radioactive Cloud") » Read Now
by Edward Teller, Albert L. Latter. 186 pgs.

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