Low dose radiation : the history of the U.S. Department of Energy research program /
Antone Brooks grew up close enough to Nevada Test Site nuclear detonations to see the sky light up, feel the shockwaves and be exposed to radioactive fallout. His long scientific career, from early days trekking into the Uinta Mountains to hunt contaminated deer for tissue samples, to thousands of h...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Pullman :
Washington State University Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | Antone Brooks grew up close enough to Nevada Test Site nuclear detonations to see the sky light up, feel the shockwaves and be exposed to radioactive fallout. His long scientific career, from early days trekking into the Uinta Mountains to hunt contaminated deer for tissue samples, to thousands of hours devoted to careful microscope work on chromosomal aberrations in animal studies, has been an increasingly sophisticated search for answers to questions these fallout exposures raised. How dangerous were they? Could they produce cancer? How afraid of low dose radiation should people be? |
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| Physical Description: | 316 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-306) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780874223545 0874223547 |