Fundamentals of Radiation and Chemical Safety covers the effects and mechanisms involved in radiation and chemical exposure on humans. The mechanisms and effects of these damaging factors have many aspects in common, as do their research methodology and the methods used for data processing. In many cases of these types of exposures the same final effect can also be noted: Cancer. Low doses of radiation and small doses of chemical exposure are continuously active and they could influence the entire population. The analysis of these two main source hazards on the lives of the human population is covered here for the first time in a single volume determining and demonstrating their common basis. Fundamentals of Radiation and Chemical Safety includes the necessary knowledge from nuclear physics, chemistry and biology, as well the methods of processing the experimental results. This title focuses on the effects of low radiation dosage and chemical hormesis as well as the hazards associated with, and safety precautions in radiation and chemicals, rather than the more commonly noted safety issues high level emergencies and disasters of this type.
- Brings together, for the first time, the problems of radiation and chemical safety on a common biophysical basis.
- Relates hazards caused by ionizing radiation and chemicals and discusses the common effective mechanisms
- Outlines common methodology and data processing between radiation and regular chemical hazards
- Concerns primarily with low levels of radiation and chemical exposure
Ilya Obodovskiy graduated from Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (MEPhI) and then for more than 40 years followed his lecturing and research work in this Institute. His research interests are focused on radiation detection and measurement, on the effects of radiation on matter. His Ph.D. was devoted to scintillations in alcali-halide cristalls. During long period the main object of reseach for him and his laboratory was radiation processes in liquid and solid noble gases. The results of these investigations could be found in more than 70 published papers, together with his collaborators he received several patents. He was also invited as an expert to survey some radiation environment in the areas of underground nuclear explosions.
In the 1990-s Obodovskiy became interested in the physico-chemical methods of detection of mutagen and carcinogen hazard. As a result he has managed a number of national and international collaborative projects, in particularly, the Project of the International Science and Technology Center.
Currently I. Obodovskiy is an independent researcher, the author of some recently published books and he also continues his scientific research.
Fundamentals of Radiation and Chemical Safety covers the effects and mechanisms involved in radiation and chemical exposure on humans. The mechanisms and effects of these damaging factors have many aspects in common, as do their research methodology and the methods used for data processing. In many cases of these types of exposures the same final effect can also be noted: Cancer. Low doses of radiation and small doses of chemical exposure are continuously active and they could influence the entire population. The analysis of these two main source hazards on the lives of the human population is covered here for the first time in a single volume determining and demonstrating their common basis. Fundamentals of Radiation and Chemical Safety includes the necessary knowledge from nuclear physics, chemistry and biology, as well the methods of processing the experimental results. This title focuses on the effects of low radiation dosage and chemical hormesis as well as the hazards associated with, and safety precautions in radiation and chemicals, rather than the more commonly noted safety issues high level emergencies and disasters of this type. Brings together, for the first time, the problems of radiation and chemical safety on a common biophysical basis. Relates hazards caused by ionizing radiation and chemicals and discusses the common effective mechanisms Outlines common methodology and data processing between radiation and regular chemical hazards Concerns primarily with low levels of radiation and chemical exposure
Basics of Nuclear Physics
Abstract
This chapter introduces in a quite popular form some selected questions of nuclear physics that need to be understood in order to read and absorb the main contents of the book. The reader will find a compact summary of constitution of the atomic nucleus, radioactive decay, and the main properties of nuclear radiations. The radioactive decay in which alpha or beta particles are emitted is described, in addition to gamma transitions. Energy diagrams clearly explain the patterns of decays. The chained series of transformations of heavy elements are considered because they make an important contribution to the natural external background. To understand the dangers posed by nuclear radiation, it is necessary to know the rules of interaction of radiation with matter. Relatively great attention is paid to dosimetry herein. In particular, the difference between dosimeters and radiometers is discussed. Toward the end of the chapter, the various components of the natural background are discussed. The author underlines that all life on Earth is immersed in the ocean of ionizing radiation since its origin up to the present.
Keywords
1.1. Peculiarities of the Processes in Microcosm
1.2. Constitution of Nucleus
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.2.2015 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Technische Chemie |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik | |
Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
Wirtschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-12-802053-9 / 0128020539 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-12-802053-1 / 9780128020531 |
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