Radiation risks
Tags: RADIATION; NUCLEAR power plants -- Risk assessment; HEALTH
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- Elevated Childhood Cancer Incidence Proximate to U.S. Nuclear Power Plants. Mangano, Joseph J.; Sherman, Janette; Chang, Carolyn; Dave, Amie; Feinberg, Elyssa; Frimer, Marina // Archives of Environmental Health;Feb2003, Vol. 58 Issue 2, p74
Numerous reports document elevated cancer rates among children living near nuclear facilities in various nations. Little research has examined U.S. rates near the nation's 103 operating reactors. This article presents a study which determined that cancer incidence for children less than 10 years...
- WHAT THE FIGHT IS ALL ABOUT. McCally, Michael // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Sep1990, Vol. 46 Issue 7, p11
Discusses the radiation threat from nuclear power plants. At least three major nuclear reactor accidents have occurred since the advent of nuclear power: at Windscale (now SellA nfield) in England in 1957, at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania in 1979, and at Chernobyl in the Soviet...
- Where Is the Next Chernobyl? Nordland, Rod; Theil, Stefan; Johnson, Scott // Newsweek (Pacific Edition);10/18/99, Vol. 134 Issue 16, p20
Focuses on conditions at nuclear power plants in Russia as of 1999. Description of a visit to the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LNPP) outside St. Petersburg; Soviet-era Russian reactors that are the same design as the one at Chernobyl; Western contributions for safety and training at the aging...
- Where is the Next Chernobyl? Nordland, Rod; Theil, Stefan; Johnson, Scott // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition);10/18/99, Vol. 134 Issue 16, p22
Focuses on conditions at nuclear power plants in Russia as of 1999. Description of a visit to the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LNPP) outside St. Petersburg; Soviet-era Russian reactors that are the same design as the one at Chernobyl; Western contributions for safety and training at the aging...
- Where Is the Next Chernobyl? Nordland, Rod; Theil, Stefan; Johnson, Scott // Newsweek;10/18/1999, Vol. 134 Issue 16, p34
Focuses on conditions at nuclear power plants in Russia as of 1999. Description of a visit to the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (LNPP) outside St. Petersburg; Soviet-era Russian reactors that are the same design as the one at Chernobyl; Western contributions for safety and training at the aging...
- Radiation protection. // Nuclear Law Bulletin;2005, Issue 76, p80
The article deals with a regulation on ionising radiation dose limits in Poland in 2005. Dose equivalents were measured in terms of effective doses for workers based on calendar schedules. Several exceptions were implemented in dosage establishment. The regulation intended to set values and...
- Nuclear Power Plants--Double-Edged Swords. // Defense Monitor;2000, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p4
Analyzes the vulnerability of nuclear reactors to an enemy attack in nations with Nuclear Power Plants. Implications of nuclear energy on the environment and national security; Statistics on the worldwide reactor status and electrical nuclear share of countries; Role of preventive diplomacy in...
- New work on the benefits of environmental regulation: Discussion. Opaluch, James J. // American Journal of Agricultural Economics;Dec93, Vol. 75 Issue 5, p1283
Discusses the value of using comparison approach on the issue of environmental regulations on nuclear power. Basis of thought process on the benefits of two alternatives; Untenability of public perceptions to expert assessments.
- Nuclear advice. // New Scientist;11/10/90, Vol. 128 Issue 1742, p19
Presents recommendations by Britain's National Radiological Protection Board that in the case of a nuclear emergency, countermeasures should include sheltering and the use of iodate tablets.
