Author: O.R. PlacakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nevada National Security Site (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Final Off-site Report of the Project Sedan Event, July 6, 1962
Author: O.R. PlacakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nevada National Security Site (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: Elements of Controversy
Author: Barton C. HackerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520083233
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics. Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic EnergyPublisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1370
Book Description
Hearings and Reports on Atomic Energy
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic EnergyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Nuclear Explosion Services for Industrial Applications
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic EnergyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blasting
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Considers H.R. 477 and identical H.R. 10288 and companion S. 1885, to amend the Atomic Energy Act to authorize AEC to provide peaceful nuclear explosives to commercial domestic and foreign concerns under an expanded Plowshare Program. Includes report "Nuclear Construction Engineering Technology" by Lt. Col. Bernard C. Hughes, Sept. 1968 (p. 447-629).
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author: Low-level Radiation Effects on Health
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
Technical Abstract Bulletin
Author: Annual Report to Congress of the Atomic Energy Commission
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description