Radiation in everyday life -- Radiation 101 -- Accidental radiation emergencies -- Intentional radiation emergencies -- Health effects of radiation -- Environmental effects of radiation -- Psychosocial effects of radiation -- Protecting yourself and your family -- Preparing your family emergency plan -- Medical response to radiation emergencies -- Radiation drugs -- Government response to radiation emergencies -- Responding as professionals -- Responding as a community -- Living with the threat
Summary
Details protocols for accidental and intentional emergencies such as nuclear explosions and dirty bombs. This book shows how to prepare a family emergency plan, covers medical responses to radiation including radiation drugs, and discusses radiation from microwaves and cellular phones as well as food irradiation
