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Radiation
The essential guide to radiation: the good, the bad, and the utterly fascinating, explained with unprecedented clarity. Earth, born in a nuclear explosion, is a radioactive planet; without radiation, life would not exist. And while radiation can be dangerous, it is also deeply misunderstood and often mistakenly feared. Now Robert Peter Gale, M.D,—the doctor to whom concerned governments turned in the wake of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters—in collaboration with medical writer Eric Lax draws on an exceptional depth of knowledge to correct myths and establish facts. Exploring what have become trigger words for anxiety—nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, uranium, plutonium, iodine-1...
Chernobyl: the Final Warning
On April 26, 1986, at 1:30 A.M., an explosion ripped through the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine. Thirty-four years later, it remains the worst nuclear accident in history. Six days later, Dr. Robert Peter Gale received an urgent telephone call from Soviet authorities asking for help. Within hours, he was assembling an unprecedented airlift that would transport expert medical personnel and sophisticated medical equipment to Moscow in a desperate attempt to save lives. Chernobyl: The Final Warning, written with Thomas Hauser, tells the full story of this historic journey. Chernobyl is a moving eyewitness portrait that takes readers from the inner sanctums of Soviet hospitals to the...
Green Budget Reform
This volume explores 25 case studies of fiscal measures that have been adopted successfully by governments in North America and Europe to reduce environmental degradation. Each study lays out the implementation issues and problems faced, and compares the effectiveness of the measure against its expectations. The political implications are also discussed, and the text draws on common themes and lessons to be gained from the measures so far. The volume is divided into sections on energy, agriculture, air and water pollution, and waste management.
Final Warning
The heroic American doctor who performed emergency bone marrow transplants for the victims of Chernobyl offers an inspirational message of hope for a world with the possibility of nuclear disaster.
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