Radon, Radium, and Uranium in Drinking Water
Title:
Radon, Radium, and Uranium in Drinking Water
Author:
Cothern, C. Richard, author.
ISBN:
9781498710701
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Contents:
chapter 1 Scientific Background for the Development of Regulations for Radionuclides in Drinking Water -- chapter 2 Analysis of the Health Risk from Ingested Radon -- chapter 3 Risk Assessment and Control Management ofRadon in Drinking Water -- chapter 4 Treatment Technology for Removing Radon fromSmall Community Water Supplies -- chapter 5 Radon Transferred from Drinking Waterinto House Air -- chapter 6 An Experimental Test of the Linear No- ThresholdTheory of Radiation Carcinogenesis -- chapter 7 Relationship of Radium and Radon withGeological Formations -- chapter 8 Occurrence of Radionuclides in Drinking Water, A National Study -- chapter 9 Raid on Sanity: Policy and Economic Analysis of Radionuclide Removal from Drinking Water -- chapter 10 Gastrointestinal Absorption of Soluble Uraniumfrom Drinking Water by Humans -- chapter 11 Determination of Uranium in an Analytical Chemistry Laboratory -- chapter 12 Removal of Uranium from Drinking Water by Conventional Treatment Methods -- chapter 13 Setting Up a Laboratory for Radon in Water Measurements -- chapter 14 Analytical Methodology for Radium in Food and Water -- chapter 15 The Price of Confidence: The Rationality of Radium Remo val from Drinking Water -- chapter 16 Removal of Radium from Drinking Water -- chapter 17 Disposal of Radium from Drinking Water Treatment.
Abstract:
"With new regulations for radionuclides in drinking water, this volume will be valuable for understanding where radionuclides come from, how their prescence is determined, where humans come in contact with them, health effects consequences (both for individuals and communities), removal from water, disposal problems and cost implications."--Provided by publisher.
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