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Subject:

(abolition-usa) IEER newsletter, on Ionizing Radiation

Date:

Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:35:22 -0400

Lisa Ledwidge / IEER <ieer

 

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Colleagues and friends,

 

The latest issue of  IEER's newsletter, Science for Democratic Action,

is on-line.  Its main theme is Ionizing Radiation

(measuring it, health effects, etc.).  It includes the following

articles and features:

 

The Uranium Burden

Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation

Measuring Radiation: Terminology and Units, Devices and Methods

Dear Arjun, What exactly is Accelerator Transmutation of Waste?

 

Check it out at http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_8/8-4/index.html. 

Suggestions for improvement are welcome and

appreciated.

 

 

 

 

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Lisa Ledwidge

Outreach Coordinator and Editor, Science for Democratic Action

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)

6935 Laurel Ave.,  Suite 204

Takoma Park, MD 20912    USA

(301) 270-5500   fax: (301) 270-3029

http://www.ieer.org

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Source:

<A HREF= " http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_8/8-4/index.html " >

http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_8/8-4/index.html</A>

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Volume 8 Number 4

September 2000

Ionizing Radiation

COMBINED ISSUE

of Science for Democratic Action and Energy & Security

 

Articles:

The Uranium Burden

by Robert Brooks and Anita Seth

Includes:

Sites of Uranium Mining for Weapons Programs

Top Ten Uranium Mines, 1997

 

Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation

by David Sumner, Howard Hu, and Alistair Woodward

 

 

Features:

Science for the Critical Masses:

Measuring Radiation: Terminology and Units (includes a handy units

table)

 

Measuring Radiation: Devices and Methods (includes photographs)

Glossary of Radiation-Related Terms

 

 

 

" Dear Arjun "

 

" What exactly is Accelerator Transmutation of Waste? Some of the news

articles and other materials seem to say that an accelerator is all that

is

required in order to transmute spent nuclear fuel into a more benign

form of

waste. Is this true? "