reprinted with permission from
No Immediate Danger, Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, by Dr Rosalie Bertell
The Book Publishing Company -- Summertown, Tennessee 38483
ISBN 0-913990-25-2
pages 15-63.

P A R T   O N E

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The Problem:

Nuclear Radiation and its Biological Effects

• The Seed

• The Fissioning Process and its Consequences

• Radioactive Particles and Living Cells: Penetration Power

• Standard-setting Preliminaries

• Within the Living Cell

• Measuring Radiation

• Linear Energy Transfer (LET)

• Cell Damage Expressed as a Health Problem -- uses tables (needs netscape)

• Radiation and Heredity

• Permissible Levels of Exposure

• Radiation Protection Standards

• Failure to Audit Health

• Can Health be Measured?

• The Health Physicist

• References