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Permissible dose
How much radiation is too much? 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. The risks of radiation--caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, effluents from nuclear power, or radioactivity from other sources--have aroused more sustained controversy and public fear than any other comparable industrial or environmental hazard. Walker clarifies the entire radiation debate, showing that permissible dose levels are a key to the principles and practices that have prevailed in the field of radiation protection since the 1930s, and to their highly charged political and scientific history as well.
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Nuclear power and non-proliferation : the remaking of U.S. policy
\"In this volume, Professor Brenner recounts how the United States dealt with the problem of nuclear proliferation in the period from 1974 to 1981 when this book was first published.\"--P. [4] of cover.
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Indo-US Nuclear Deal
This book interrogates the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement from its inception in July 2005 to its conclusion in the latter part of 2008 through 12 articles, each of which focuses on different aspects of the deal. They discuss the factors that facilitated the deal, the roadblocks that were encountered, and the implications of the deal for the future of India's foreign policy, its energy security and the international non-proliferation regime. Together, they address the internal political dynamics in India and the United States in order to present perspectives of both countries.
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Protecting the Public Health with the Inflation Reduction Act — Provisions Affecting Climate Change and Its Health Effects
Public Health and the Inflation Reduction ActThe Inflation Reduction Act, the most significant measure adopted by Congress to combat climate change, is likely to play an important role in mitigating the adverse health effects of climate change.
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Atomic dreams : the new nuclear evangelists and the fight for the future of energy
\"The inside story of how nuclear energy--long considered scary, controversial, and even apocalyptic--has become the hot topic of the climate debate, and perhaps a vital power source of the future.\"--Amazon.
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The Hanford Plaintiffs
For more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear
weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly
blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing
radiation, the byproduct of plutonium production. For those who
lived in the vicinity, many of them families of Hanford workers,
the consequences soon became apparent as rates of illness and death
steadily climbed-despite repeated assurances from the Atomic Energy
Commission that the facility posed no threat. Trisha T. Pritikin,
who has battled a lifetime of debilitating illness to become a
lawyer and advocate for her fellow \"downwinders,\" tells the
devastating story of those who were harmed in Hanford's wake and,
seeking answers and justice, were subjected to yet more suffering.
At the center of The Hanford Plaintiffs are the oral
histories of twenty-four people who joined In re Hanford
Nuclear Reservation Litigation , the class-action suit that
sought recognition of, and recompense for, the grievous injury
knowingly caused by Hanford. Radioactive contamination of American
communities was not uncommon during the wartime Manhattan Project,
nor during the Cold War nuclear buildup that followed. Pritikin
interweaves the stories of people poisoned by Hanford with a
parallel account of civilians downwind of the Nevada atomic test
site, who suffer from identical radiogenic diseases. Against the
heartrending details of personal illness and loss and, ultimately,
persistence in the face of a legal system that protects the
government on all fronts and at all costs, The Hanford
Plaintiffs draws a damning picture of the failure of the US
Congress and the Judiciary to defend the American public and to
adequately redress a catastrophic wrong. Documenting the legal,
medical, and human cost of one community's struggle for justice,
this book conveys in clear and urgent terms the damage done to
ordinary Americans in the name of business, progress, and
patriotism.
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Science and the Supreme Court: Cases to watch in 2018
The death penalty, uranium mining and the endangered dusky gopher frog are among the topics that justices will consider this year.
The death penalty, uranium mining and the endangered dusky gopher frog are among the topics that justices will consider this year.
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North Korea and the World
With nearly twenty-five million citizens, a secretive
totalitarian dictatorship, and active nuclear and ballistic missile
weapons programs, North Korea presents some of the world's most
difficult foreign policy challenges. For decades, the United States
and its partners have employed multiple strategies in an effort to
prevent Pyongyang from acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
Washington has moved from the Agreed Framework under President Bill
Clinton to George W. Bush's denunciation of the regime as part of
the \"axis of evil\" to a posture of \"strategic patience\" under
Barack Obama. Given that a new president will soon occupy the White
House, policy expert Walter C. Clemens Jr. argues that now is the
time to reconsider US diplomatic efforts in North Korea.
In North Korea and the World , Clemens poses the
question, \"Can, should, and must we negotiate with a regime we
regard as evil?\" Weighing the needs of all the
stakeholders-including China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea-he
concludes that the answer is yes. After assessing nine other policy
options, he makes the case for engagement and negotiation with the
regime. There still may be time to freeze or eliminate North
Korea's weapons of mass destruction.
Grounded in philosophy and history, this volume offers a fresh
road map for negotiators and outlines a grand bargain that balances
both ethical and practical security concerns.
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