AW: [ RadSafe ] Nuclear Power Plant Effluents / EMP

[John Jacobus]

The Glasstone of "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" fame
is Samuel Glasstone.  He also wrote "Handbook on
Atomic Energy," third edition (1967) and "Nuclear
Reactor Engineering" (1967).

--- Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>
wrote:

> John,
> 
> "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" was in the old days
> a kind of "bible"
> for anybody who was involved in protection from
> nuclear bomb effects and
> fallout also in Europe. During my short compulsory
> military duty I
> shocked the instructors (at very low scientific
> level if at any at all)
> by citing from this book, showing them that the
> official training was
> wrong. 
> 
> In the course of time I had to question some of the
> findings, the most
> important being the distribution of radionuclides.
> The book did not at
> all consider meteorological conditions like rain.
> From the Chernobyl
> accident we drastically learnt that clouds of
> radionuclides may
> contaminate an area, but only rain will convert this
> into a serious
> problem or even a disaster. 
> 
> The scenarios as I remember them are rather
> outdated, which is not to
> downplay the importance of this book. Since it is
> from 1977 I wonder
> whether anything similar, but updated to the 21st
> century and current
> nuclear weapons exists? 
> 
> An almost off topic question: During my studies in
> chemistry I had in
> the 70's a book of "Glasstone" on Physical
> Chemistry. I used it to
> understand first of all Physical Chemistry and then
> went to the other
> books which I would not have understood without
> "Glasstone". Is it the
> same person? 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Franz
> 
> 
> Franz Schoenhofer
> PhD, MR iR
> Habicherg. 31/7
> A-1160 Vienna
> AUSTRIA
> phone -43-0699-1168-1319
> 
> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im
> > Auftrag von John Jacobus
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 25. Februar 2005 17:05
> > An: radsafe at radlab.nl
> > Betreff: RE: [ RadSafe ] Nuclear Power Plant
> Effluents / EMP
> > 
> > There is an on-line version of "The Effects of
> Nuclear
> > Weapons" at
> >
>
http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/effects/effects.shtml
> > Each chapter is a pdf file.
> > 
> > You used to be able to obtain a copy from
> > http://www.survivalring.org/cd-femabooks.htm
> > Scroll about half-way down the page.
> > 
> 
> 
> 


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"Baltimore is actually a very safe city if you are not involved in the drug trade."
DR. PETER BEILENSON, the city's health commissioner.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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