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Radiation Information

A collection of information on Radiation.

• Argonne National Labs - Radiation Fact Sheets for Selected Environmental Contaminants to Support Health Risk Analyses. Really nicely done. Just in case the link should disappear in the future, here is the pdf version (2.4Mb) of the chart.
• Radiation Dose Chart from the American Nuclear Society - Our daily exposure to radiation comes from numerous sources within our environment. The annual dose to which we are subjected depends upon where and how we live, and what we eat, drink, and breathe. This easy-to-use chart shows how to estimate that dose. Just in case the link should disappear in the future, here is the pdf version (941 kb) of the chart.
• Radiation info (introductory level) by Jeremy Whitlock, with permission (pdf 296kb).
• H.J. Moe, Operational Health Physics Training - Covers Reactor Operations, Particle Accelerators, and X-Ray Devices as well as the basics. It's a "Must Read", apparently.
• "Resolving the controversy over beneficial effects of ionizing radiation", overheads (pdf 44 kb) and text (pdf 33 kb) by Dr. Jerry M Cuttler, PEng, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, presented at the conference on the Effects of Low and Very Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation on Health World Council of Nuclear Workers (WONUC), Versailles, France, 1999 June 16-18.
• The LNT Hypothesis: Ethical Travesties, an article by Margaret N. Maxey, Ph.D., Professor, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Wingspread Conference, Racine, WI, August 1997. - Slowly but inexorably, radiation scientists are recognizing that the LNT hypothesis -- at one time administratively useful in regulating radiation exposures during the infancy of radiation science -- has in its maturity become scientifically illegitimate and ethically indefensible.