Radiation Protection

• Published in: Protecting New Jersey's Environment p. 67
• Main Author: Belton, Thomas
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States Rutgers University Press 03.11.2010
• Subjects: Accidents; Alkaline earth metals; Applied sciences; Behavioral sciences; Business; Chemical elements; Chemistry; Electric power facilities; Electric power industry; Electric power plants; Energy industry; Fluid dynamics; Fluid mechanics; Hazardous waste; Health sciences; Human societies; Industrial accidents; Industrial sectors; Industry; Manufacturing industries; Materials; Materials science; Mechanics; Medical physics; Medical sciences; Microphysics; Missiles; Noble gases; Nuclear physics; Nuclear power plants; Nuclear reactions; Physical sciences; Physics; Plumes; Projectile weapons; Projectiles; Public safety; Radiation accidents; Radiation protection; Radioactive decay; Radioactive waste; Radium; Radon; Sociology; Technology; Waste materials; Weapons
• ISBN: 9780813548876; 081354887X

I would like to tell you a nonlinear story about my introduction to radiation protection as an occupational and environmental issue. Just as inAlice in Wonderland, my journey was fraught with conundrums that pitted logic—with unexpected consequences—against my desire to be a scientist. Physics was the most difficult university subject for me. To some mechanics, the intrinsic forces moving the physical world are as simple to read as the nightly baseball scores. For me it was more like trying to reassemble the family clock after I had pulled it apart as a child to see how it