Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1940
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1940
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1940
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Proceedings of the County Legislature of Suffolk County
Author: Suffolk County (N.Y.) County Legislature
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Category : Suffolk County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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Category : Suffolk County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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Activity report
Author: Brookhaven National Laboratory. National Synchrotron Light Source
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Emergency Preparedness and the Licensing Process for Commercial Nuclear Power Reactors
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
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The Leak
Author: Robert P. Crease
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262370905
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility. In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class, Nobel Prize–winning lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science and one of the world’s finest research facilities. The leak, harmless to health, came from a storage pool rather than the reactor. But its discovery triggered a media and political firestorm that resulted in the reactor’s shutdown, and even attempts to close the entire laboratory. A quarter century later, the episode reveals the dynamics of today’s controversies in which fears and the dismissal of science disrupt serious discussion and research of vital issues such as vaccines, climate change, and toxic chemicals. This story has all the elements of a thriller, with vivid characters and dramatic twists and turns. Key players include congressmen and scientists; journalists and university presidents; actors, supermodels, and anti-nuclear activists, all interacting and teaming up in surprising ways. The authors, each with insider knowledge of and access to confidential documents and the key players, reveal how a fact of no health significance could be portrayed as a Chernobyl-like disaster. This compelling exposé reveals the gaps between scientists, politicians, media, and the public that have only gotten more dangerous since 1997. Peter Bond is a retired physicist who worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory for 43 years in a wide variety of roles, including interim laboratory director during much of the period covered by this book.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262370905
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility. In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class, Nobel Prize–winning lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science and one of the world’s finest research facilities. The leak, harmless to health, came from a storage pool rather than the reactor. But its discovery triggered a media and political firestorm that resulted in the reactor’s shutdown, and even attempts to close the entire laboratory. A quarter century later, the episode reveals the dynamics of today’s controversies in which fears and the dismissal of science disrupt serious discussion and research of vital issues such as vaccines, climate change, and toxic chemicals. This story has all the elements of a thriller, with vivid characters and dramatic twists and turns. Key players include congressmen and scientists; journalists and university presidents; actors, supermodels, and anti-nuclear activists, all interacting and teaming up in surprising ways. The authors, each with insider knowledge of and access to confidential documents and the key players, reveal how a fact of no health significance could be portrayed as a Chernobyl-like disaster. This compelling exposé reveals the gaps between scientists, politicians, media, and the public that have only gotten more dangerous since 1997. Peter Bond is a retired physicist who worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory for 43 years in a wide variety of roles, including interim laboratory director during much of the period covered by this book.
Emergency Preparedness and the Licensing Process for Commercial Nuclear Power Reactors: The Shoreham nuclear powerplant
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : Civil defense
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Suffolk County
Author: Suffolk County (N.Y.). Board of Supervisors
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Category : Suffolk County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
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Category : Suffolk County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
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Individual Sewage-disposal Systems
Author: United States. Veterans Administration
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Category : Mortgage loans
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Category : Mortgage loans
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Legal Compilation; Statutes and Legislative History, Executive Orders, Regulations, Guidelines and Reports
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Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category : Environmental law
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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