Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

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Page 6 - The public must be protected from radiation but not to the extent that the degree of protection provided results in the substitution of a worse hazard for the radiation avoided. Additionally there should not be attempted the reduction of small risks even further at the cost of large sums of money that spent otherwise, would clearly produce greater benefit.
Page 7 - ... at such levels that a major portion of the body could receive in any one hour a dose in excess of 5 millirem, or in any 5 consecutive days a dose in excess of 100 millirems; (3) "High radiation area...
Page 10 - Radioactive materials are divided into two broad classes: (1) "Special form" which is a massive, non-friable, solid material, or material confined in a high integrity capsule of inert material, and (2) "Normal form" which applies to all radioactive materials which are not "special form.
Page 1 - OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY: The Joint Committee on Atomic Energy has long considered it essential to have a capability to assess continually the overall national and world energy picture.
Page 24 - An uncharged elementary particle with a mass slightly greater than that of the proton, and found in the nucleus of every atom heavier than hydrogen.
Page 7 - Commission pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section, no licensee shall possess, use or transfer licensed material in such a manner as to create in any unrestricted area from radioactive material and other sources of radiation in his possession: (1) Radiation levels which, if an individual were continuously present in the area, could result in his receiving a dose in excess of two millirems in any one hour, or (2...
Page 23 - It is made up of two neutrons and two protons bound together, hence is identical with the nucleus of a helium atom. It is the least penetrating of the three common types of radiation (alpha, beta, gamma) emitted by radioactive material, being stopped by a sheet of paper.
Page 23 - An isotopie separation process by which the relative abundances of the isotopes of a given element are altered, thus producing a form of the element that has been enriched in one or more isotopes and depleted in others.
Page 23 - High-energy, short wavelength electromagnetic radiation. Gamma radiation frequently accompanies alpha and beta emissions and always accompanies fission. Gamma rays are very penetrating, and are best stopped or shielded against by dense materials such as lead or uranium.
Page 9 - The graphical data projects a six-fold increase in electric generating capacity from the year 1960 to 1990 (3.4 "units" of supplied energy in 1960 up to at least 22.5 units in 1990). Trends indicate that from the year 1970 through about 1982 or 1983, the United States will use as much oil and gas as it had used from the beginning of its history until the year 1970. To compound the problem, much of the rest of the world itself now has energy consumption patterns that are growing at a faster rate than...

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