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Fire safety in the atomic age
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Book Reviews
Fire Safety in the Atomic Age, by LAWRENCE E. WHITMAN. nation problems, transportation of radioactive materials, Nelson-Hall Publishers, Chicago, 1980. instrumentation, fallout shelters and radiation hazards in firefighting. The objectives of the book are in genera1 achieved and The aim of this book is to provide a basic introduction to the simple approach to radiation hazards which has been problems associated with radiation hazards and the adopted should acquaint the layman with the problems methods used to deal with them in layman’s language. It is involved. Nevertheless, the introduction of the radiation principally written to acquaint those faced with radiation units roentgen, rad and rem is confusing. The latter fire safety problems of the additional hazards that they appears in the text before it has been defined or explained. may encounter if fire occurs in a radiation environment. It Also roentgen and rem are interchanged arbitrarily in the will be particularly instructive to firemen, plant safety pertext and in the problems, which must lead to some confusonnel, technicians etc. concerned with firefighting. sion. Finally, mention should have been made of the units The book discusses the relative importance of time, disgray and sievert in view of the 1980 publication date. tance and shielding when setting up radiation control sysJ. SHAW tems, it explains how to establish exposure standards and Assistant Director of presents the basic facts which firefighters should know. Nucleonics Laboratory, Chapters are included on topics such as the radiation Queen Mary College, hazard problem, external and internal radiation, contamiUnioersity of London
Book Reviews
Fire Safety in the Atomic Age, by LAWRENCE E. WHITMAN. nation problems, transportation of radioactive materials, Nelson-Hall Publishers, Chicago, 1980. instrumentation, fallout shelters and radiation hazards in firefighting. The objectives of the book are in genera1 achieved and The aim of this book is to provide a basic introduction to the simple approach to radiation hazards which has been problems associated with radiation hazards and the adopted should acquaint the layman with the problems methods used to deal with them in layman’s language. It is involved. Nevertheless, the introduction of the radiation principally written to acquaint those faced with radiation units roentgen, rad and rem is confusing. The latter fire safety problems of the additional hazards that they appears in the text before it has been defined or explained. may encounter if fire occurs in a radiation environment. It Also roentgen and rem are interchanged arbitrarily in the will be particularly instructive to firemen, plant safety pertext and in the problems, which must lead to some confusonnel, technicians etc. concerned with firefighting. sion. Finally, mention should have been made of the units The book discusses the relative importance of time, disgray and sievert in view of the 1980 publication date. tance and shielding when setting up radiation control sysJ. SHAW tems, it explains how to establish exposure standards and Assistant Director of presents the basic facts which firefighters should know. Nucleonics Laboratory, Chapters are included on topics such as the radiation Queen Mary College, hazard problem, external and internal radiation, contamiUnioersity of London