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A highly practical resource for health physicists and other professionals in radiation protection. This third edition has been completely revised and updated with an emphasis on basic concepts as they apply to radiation issues such as the incident at the Fukushima-Daichi plant in Japan.
Designed for readers with limited as well as basic science backgrounds, the book presents thorough and up-to-date explanations of radiation physics and the major concepts that underpin it. Extensive discussion is provided of radioactivity, including sources, materials and decay schemes for about 100 of the most common radionuclides encountered by practitioners. The text emphasizes practical calculations for radiation sources and levels in the workplace and the environment, and presents methods, including shielding, for modifying them. Comprehensive appendices and more than 400 figures are provided for such calculations; these are based on current resource data. Excerpts from the Chart of the Nuclides, activation cross sections, fission yields, fission-product chains, photon attenuation coefficients, and nuclear masses are also provided. Real-world examples and exercises demonstrate concepts and their use.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Atoms: Structure and Energetics
Chapter 2: Electromagnetic Energy
Chapter 3 Radioactive Transformation
Chapter 4: Nuclear Interactions
Chapter 5: Nuclear Fission and Products
Chapter 6: Natural radiation
Chapter 7: Interactions of radiation with matter
Chapter 8: Radiation shielding
Chapter 9: Internal Radiation Dose
Chapter 10 Environmental Radiation Assessment
Chapter 11: Nuclear Criticality
Chapter 12: Radiation Detection and Measurement
Chapter 13: Statistics in Radiation Physics
Chapter 14: Neutrons
About the author
James E. Martin is a Certified Health Physicist and Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He has been involved in numerous programs aimed at establishing standards and norms for protecting both people and the environment from radioactive materials.
Summary
Lehrbuch für höhere Semester und Handbuch für die Berufspraxis in einem! Vermittelt werden alle Kenntnisse zum Strahlenschutz, die man in der medizinischen Physik und verwandten Tätigkeitsfeldern benötigt.
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"The book is intended as a comprehensive treatise about all the physics aspects upon which radiation protection is based." ( Health Physics , 1 March 2014)
"A highly practical resource for health physicists and other professionals in radiation protection." ( ETDE Energy Database , 1 October 2013)
