RE: "The Anti-Nuclear Game", anti-anti's

["Heinmiller, Bruce" <heinmillerb@aecl.ca>]

I highly recommend this book, in spite of several technical errors, e.g.:
p33  Implication that alphas have a range of a few mm in tissue
p36  K-40 abundance given as 0.1% (0.01% is closer)
p91  Energy per fission given as 200 keV instead of 200 MeV;

and that some data are also out-of-date, e.g.:
p57  Theoretical cancer death risk given as 1 per 10000 person.rem;

and that some tables have out-of-date values (e.g. 0.5 and 1 mrem/y from
watching TV), and the spousal irradiation dose (which we've shot down in
previous posts) error is propagated in the book.

In spite of these errors, the book is well written, has lots of information,
is well-referenced, and is entertaining.

Bruce Heinmiller CHP
heinmillerb@aecl.ca

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> From: 	Karam, Andrew[SMTP:Andrew_Karam@URMC.Rochester.edu]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Thursday, April 06, 2000 11:58 AM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	"The Anti-Nuclear Game", anti-anti's
> 
> Dear Colleagues:
> 
> I just stumbled across a book buried in our library (all five shelves of
> it)
> titled "The Anti-Nuclear Game", written by Gordon Sims and published in
> 1990
> by the University of Ottawa Press.
> 
> 
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