Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Radioisotopes
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Radioisotopes in Science and Industry
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioisotopes
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioisotopes
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Radioisotopes in science and industry : a special report
Radioisotopes in science and industry
Author: United States. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Radioisotopes in Science and Industry
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioisotopes
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Radioisotopes
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Radiation Uses in Industry and Science
Author: Lloyd Earl Brownell
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Category : Ionizing radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Publisher:
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Category : Ionizing radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Special Sources of Information on Isotopes
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Isotopes Development
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Category : Isotopes
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Publisher:
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Category : Isotopes
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Life Atomic
Author: Angela N. H. Creager
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601794X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government’s efforts to harness the power of the atom for peace—advancing medicine, domestic energy, and foreign relations. In Life Atomic, Angela N. H. Creager tells the story of how these radioisotopes, which were simultaneously scientific tools and political icons, transformed biomedicine and ecology. Government-produced radioisotopes provided physicians with new tools for diagnosis and therapy, specifically cancer therapy, and enabled biologists to trace molecular transformations. Yet the government’s attempt to present radioisotopes as marvelous dividends of the atomic age was undercut in the 1950s by the fallout debates, as scientists and citizens recognized the hazards of low-level radiation. Creager reveals that growing consciousness of the danger of radioactivity did not reduce the demand for radioisotopes at hospitals and laboratories, but it did change their popular representation from a therapeutic agent to an environmental poison. She then demonstrates how, by the late twentieth century, public fear of radioactivity overshadowed any appreciation of the positive consequences of the AEC’s provision of radioisotopes for research and medicine.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601794X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government’s efforts to harness the power of the atom for peace—advancing medicine, domestic energy, and foreign relations. In Life Atomic, Angela N. H. Creager tells the story of how these radioisotopes, which were simultaneously scientific tools and political icons, transformed biomedicine and ecology. Government-produced radioisotopes provided physicians with new tools for diagnosis and therapy, specifically cancer therapy, and enabled biologists to trace molecular transformations. Yet the government’s attempt to present radioisotopes as marvelous dividends of the atomic age was undercut in the 1950s by the fallout debates, as scientists and citizens recognized the hazards of low-level radiation. Creager reveals that growing consciousness of the danger of radioactivity did not reduce the demand for radioisotopes at hospitals and laboratories, but it did change their popular representation from a therapeutic agent to an environmental poison. She then demonstrates how, by the late twentieth century, public fear of radioactivity overshadowed any appreciation of the positive consequences of the AEC’s provision of radioisotopes for research and medicine.
Isotopes for Medicine and the Life Sciences
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309176697
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Radioactive isotopes and enriched stable isotopes are used widely in medicine, agriculture, industry, and science, where their application allows us to perform many tasks more accurately, more simply, less expensively, and more quickly than would otherwise be possible. Indeed, in many casesâ€"for example, biological tracersâ€"there is no alternative. In a stellar example of "technology transfer" that began before the term was popular, the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessors has supported the development and application of isotopes and their transfer to the private sector. The DOE is now at an important crossroads: Isotope production has suffered as support for DOE's laboratories has declined. In response to a DOE request, this book is an intensive examination of isotope production and availability, including the education and training of those who will be needed to sustain the flow of radioactive and stable materials from their sources to the laboratories and medical care facilities in which they are used. Chapters include an examination of enriched stable isotopes; reactor and accelerator-produced radionuclides; partnerships among industries, national laboratories, and universities; and national isotope policy.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309176697
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Radioactive isotopes and enriched stable isotopes are used widely in medicine, agriculture, industry, and science, where their application allows us to perform many tasks more accurately, more simply, less expensively, and more quickly than would otherwise be possible. Indeed, in many casesâ€"for example, biological tracersâ€"there is no alternative. In a stellar example of "technology transfer" that began before the term was popular, the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessors has supported the development and application of isotopes and their transfer to the private sector. The DOE is now at an important crossroads: Isotope production has suffered as support for DOE's laboratories has declined. In response to a DOE request, this book is an intensive examination of isotope production and availability, including the education and training of those who will be needed to sustain the flow of radioactive and stable materials from their sources to the laboratories and medical care facilities in which they are used. Chapters include an examination of enriched stable isotopes; reactor and accelerator-produced radionuclides; partnerships among industries, national laboratories, and universities; and national isotope policy.
Radioisotopes in Industry
Author: John R. Bradford
Publisher:
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Category : Radioisotopes
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Publisher:
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Category : Radioisotopes
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Radioisotopes and Radiation
Author: John Hundale Lawrence
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9780844607658
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9780844607658
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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