Radiation Threats and Your Safety
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Radiation Threats and Your Safety

A Guide to Preparation and Response for Professionals and Community

  1. 344 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Radiation Threats and Your Safety

A Guide to Preparation and Response for Professionals and Community

About this book

While it has aided far many more than it has harmed, radiation is forever etched in the public's mind as an indiscriminate and particularly pernicious killer. Consequently, it is especially critical in this age of terrorist threats that we equip ourselves with accurate information and practical tools that will serve us in the rare chance that we find ourselves in a radiation crisis.

Radiation Threats and Your Safety: A Guide to Preparation and Response for Professionals and Community offers a calm and authoritative approach to crisis preparation. Written by a health physicist from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the book informs us about what we should know ahead of time, how to prepare, and the best ways to respond to a nuclear or radiological incident either as an emergency responder or community/family member. Organized to serve both as a preparation guide and as a reference in a crisis, this book -Uses common language while avoiding unnecessary scientific jargon -Details protocols for both accidental and intentional radiation emergencies such as nuclear explosions and dirty bombs-Shows how to prepare a family emergency plan

-Covers medical responses to radiation emergencies including radiation drugs

-Provides an emergency supply list

-Discusses radiation from microwaves and cellular phones as well as food irradiation

There is no reason why we should feel helpless when faced with a radiation emergency. We can take action to protect ourselves, our families, and our communities. How we react to a radiation emergency will determine its true final impact. To this end, we need information and leaders we can depend upon.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Dedication
  3. CONTENTS
  4. PREFACE
  5. THE AUTHOR
  6. Part One: UNDERSTANDING RADIATION
  7. Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
  8. Chapter 2. RADIATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE
  9. Chapter 3. RADIATION 101
  10. Part Two: THE IMPACT OF RADIATION
  11. Chapter 4. ACCIDENTAL RADIATION EMERGENCIES
  12. Chapter 5. INTENTIONAL RADIATION EMERGENCIES
  13. Chapter 6. HEALTH EFFECTS OF RADIATION
  14. Chpater 7. ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS OF RADIATION
  15. Chapter 8. PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS OF RADIATION
  16. Part Three: RESPONDING TO RADIATION
  17. Chapter 9. PROTECTING YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY
  18. Chapter 10. PREPARING YOUR FAMILY EMERGENCY PLAN
  19. Chapter 11. MEDICAL RESPONSE TO RADIATION EMERGENCIES
  20. Chapter 12. RADIATION DRUGS
  21. Chapter 13. GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO RADIATION EMERGENCIES
  22. Chapter 14. RESPONDING AS PROFESSIONALS
  23. Chapter 15. RESPONDING AS A COMMUNITY
  24. Part Four: CONCLUSION
  25. Chapter 16. LIVING WITH THE THREAT
  26. GLOSSARY
  27. APPENDIX A: EMERGENCY SUPPLY LIST
  28. APPENDIX B: RADIATION FROM MICROWAVES AND CELLULAR PHONES
  29. APPENDIX C: FOOD IRRADIATION
  30. INDEX
  31. Back cover