Preface
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Perceptions
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- A mistake
- Personal risk and knowledge
- Individual and collective opinions
- Confidence and decisions
- Science and safety
Atmospheric Environment
- Size and composition of the atmosphere
- Atmospheric change
- Energy and agriculture
The Atomic Nucleus
- Powerful and beneficial
- Size scales
- Atoms and electrons
- The nuclear atom
- The quiescent nucleus
- Energy for the Sun
Ionising Radiation
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- The spectrum of radiation
- Damage from radiation
- Nuclear stability
- Measuring radiation
- Natural environment
Safety and Damage
- Proportionate effects
- Balancing risks
- Protection of man
- Damage and stress
- Time to repair
- Collective dose
- Safety margins
- Multiple causes
- Beneficial and adaptive effects
- Surprise at Chernobyl
A Single Dose of Radiation
- What happens to molecules
- What happens to cells
- Evidence at high dose
- Repair mechanisms
- Low and intermediate doses
- Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Radiation-induced cancers
- Medical diagnostic scans
- Nuclear medicine
- People irradiated at Chernobyl
- Thyroid cancer
- Other cancers at Chernobyl
Multiple Doses of Radiation
- Distributed doses
- Cancer therapy
- Fractionation
- Doses in the environment
- Radon and lung cancer
- Radiation workers and dial painters
- Biological defence in depth
Nuclear Energy
- Realising nuclear energy
- Explosive devices
- Civil power from fission
- Energy without weapons
- Waste
Radiation and Society
- Perceiving radiation
- Public concern
- Testing and fallout
- Deterrence and reassurance
- Judging radiation safety
Action for Survival
- Relaxed regulations
- New power stations
- Fuel and politics
- Waste strategy
- Decommissioning
- Proliferation and terrorism
- Fusion power
- Costs and the economy
- Fresh water and food
- Education and understanding
Summary of Conclusions
Conclusions and Fukushima Epilogue (96 Kb)
Further Reading and References
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