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Controlling the atom : the beginning of nuclear regulation, 1946-1972
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- Creator
- George T. Mazuzan and J. Samuel Walker
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1985]
- Physical Details
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- x, 530 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520051829, 0520051823
- OCLC
- ocm10605131
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [499]-509.
- Toward the peaceful atom -- The principles of radiation protection -- The structure of atomic regulation -- Insuring against catastrophe: Price-Anderson -- The Power Reactor Development Company controversy -- The PRDC in court -- Licensing reform and Price-Anderson -- Standards development: the reactor-site criteria -- The politics of radiation protection -- The states and atomic regulation -- Workers and radiation hazards -- Radioactive waste disposal: complexities and controversies -- Improving the regulatory process -- Watershed: the 1962 report to the President -- Appendixes. Glossary of organizations and acronyms -- Chronology of regulatory history