Natural Radioactivity of Food Samples and Effects on Environmental Safety
Author : Yuan Chaw Kwok
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Environmental protection
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Author : Yuan Chaw Kwok
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 37,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Environmental protection
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Author : Michael Poschl
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2006-08-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1000611620
As radiological residue, both naturally occurring and technologically driven, works its way through the ecosystem, we see its negative effects on the human population. Radionuclide Concentrations in Food and the Environment addresses the key issues concerning the relationship between natural and manmade sources of environmental radioactivity
Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Food Protection Committee
Publisher : National Academy of Sciences
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Medical
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Author : John H. Harley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1447116100
The Symposium on Radionuclides in the Food Chain, sponsored by the Interna tional Life Sciences Institute in association with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, was intended to bring together policymakers and other representatives of the food industry with radiation experts involved in measuring and assessing radioactivity in foodstuffs. The symposium was made timely by the problems arising from the nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl, in the USSR, which brought out the lack of international agreement on guidance for responding to such radionuclide contamination of food and foodstuffs. The presentations by the radiation experts covered the sources of radionu clides-natural radioactivity, fallout from nuclear weapons tests, routine releases from nuclear facilities, and various nuclear accidents. The speakers represented a broad distribution in both scientific disciplines and international geographic origin. They summarized the available data on measurements and indicated the current procedures for assessing radiation exposure. It was hoped that the food industry representatives would bring out the problems posed to industry and governments by the presence of radioactivity in food.
Author : Laurie Wirt
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Little Colorado River (N.M. and Ariz. )
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Author : Great Britain. Food Standards Agency
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
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Author : András S. Szabó
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Science
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Author : U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Publisher :
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Radioactive waste disposal
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309078313
The most recent volume in the Drinking Water and Health series contains the results of a two-part study on the toxicity of drinking water contaminants. The first part examines current practices in risk assessment, identifies new noncancerous toxic responses to chemicals found in drinking water, and discusses the use of pharmacokinetic data to estimate the delivered dose and response. The second part of the book provides risk assessments for 14 specific compounds, 9 presented here for the first time.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 1999-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309062977
Naturally occurring radionuclides are found throughout the earth's crust, and they form part of the natural background of radiation to which all humans are exposed. Many human activities-such as mining and milling of ores, extraction of petroleum products, use of groundwater for domestic purposes, and living in houses-alter the natural background of radiation either by moving naturally occurring radionuclides from inaccessible locations to locations where humans are present or by concentrating the radionuclides in the exposure environment. Such alterations of the natural environment can increase, sometimes substantially, radiation exposures of the public. Exposures of the public to naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) that result from human activities that alter the natural environment can be subjected to regulatory control, at least to some degree. The regulation of public exposures to such technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other regulatory and advisory organizations is the subject of this study by the National Research Council's Committee on the Evaluation of EPA Guidelines for Exposures to Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials.