Los Alamos Science 1995 №23

Radiation protection and the human radiation experiments. Published by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1995, 398 p.
Popular science magazine about new achievements in physics, experimental techniques and computer simulation.
Many people have a great fear of radiation with very little understanding about what it is and how its effects vary with dose. Research on the health effects of radiation has been a priority at Los Alamos from the Manhattan Project to the present. The first section of this volume introduces the average reader to radiation and its properties, radiation and its relationship to cancer, and the epidemiology of radiation exposure. The second section relates the experiences of LANL plutonium workers who had accidental intakes of this reactor-produced element and highlights the ongoing efforts at LANL to understand and mitigate the effects of exposure. Finally, the last section sets the record straight on the 1944 government-run experiments, publicized during the 1993 DOE openness initiative, which involved plutonium uptake by human subjects. This volume lays out the Laboratory's involvement in those experiments, why they were done, what was learned, and what happened to the subjects.Comments from the Director – (Siegfried S. Hecker).
Radiation, Cell Cycle, and Cancer - (Richard J. Reynolds and Jay A. Schecker).
Radiation and Risk: A Hard Look at the Data - (Mario E. Schillaci).
A Brief History of Radiation Protection Standards - (William C Inkret, John C Taschner, and Charles B. Meinhold).On the Front Lines — A Roundtable with Los Alamos Plutonium Workers Past and Present.
The Participants Setting the Stage in Chicago Working with Plutonium
Plutonium Metal: The First Gram – (Ed Hammel).
The Future of Plutonium Technology – (Dana Christensen).The Human Radiation Experiments.
Introduction to the Human Studies Project – (William C. Inkret).
The Human Plutonium Injection Experiments – (William Moss and Roger Eckhardt).
A True Measure of Plutonium Exposure: The Human Tissue Analysis Program at Los Alamos – (James F. Mclnroy).
Tracer Studies at Los Alamos and the Birth of Nuclear Medicine – (George L. Voelz and Donald Petersen as told to Debra A. Daugherty).
Child Volunteers: One Dad Tells the Story – (Donald Petersen).
Ethics: "Ethical Harm" and the Plutonium Injection Experiments – (Michael S. Yesley).