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Friendly fallout 1953
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ISBN: 0874178320 9780874178326 9780874178258 0874178258 Year: 2010 Publisher: Reno University of Nevada Press

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"Friendly Fallout 1953 is a hybrid work of literature that combines the actual history of aboveground atomic testing in the Nevada desert in 1953 with fictional vignettes that explore the impact of the tests on the people who participated in them and on civilian "downwinders." While most of the details are factual, the characters are imaginary composites of men, women, and children affected by the testing program in that fateful year. Some were visitors, like a newspaper reporter and a Las Vegas showgirl. Some--like a radiation specialist, a meteorologist, a secretary, a soldier, and a physicist--lived and worked at the desert proving ground. Still others--a teenage girl, a Paiute boy, a Mormon mother--were unwitting participants when the friendly fallout came their way. Their stories bring to life a turbulent era when Cold War fears, patriotic enthusiasm, scientific progress, and unacknowledged political agendas often collided with the welfare of ordinary citizens and the environment." "Ronald compellingly evokes the test explosions in all their terrifying magnificence and explores the diverse and sometimes conflicting emotions of a generation that saw atomic energy as its best protection against the horrors of another world war, even to the sacrifice of the innocent people, wildlife, and livestock that became accidental victims in this search for national power and security."--Jacket.


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The Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) and proposed wilderness areas : issues affecting the NTTR's land withdrawal renewal
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Year: 2016 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation,

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The testing and training available at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), in southern Nevada, is considered crucial to the survival of U.S. military personnel and to the success of their missions. As a Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB), the NTTR also is a core element of Department of Defense (DoD) Test and Evaluation (T & E) infrastructure. 2.9 million acres of land have been withdrawn from public use for the NTTR, and the authorization for this withdrawal expires in November 2021. To renew the land withdrawal, the Air Force must submit a request to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). A significant portion of the NTTR overlaps some land within the Desert National Wildlife Refuge that has been designated as proposed wilderness. This document provides background on the proposed wilderness designation; the limits that it places on Air Force training; and potential approaches to mitigating these limits that decision-makers should consider as part of, and even separately from, a strategy related to the renewal of the land-withdrawal authorization. The Air Force has several options for obtaining greater operational flexibility in the NTTR areas that are proposed as wilderness. All of these options would require working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and within official USFWS processes, to meet Air Force objectives.

Exposure of the American people to Iodine-131 from Nevada nuclear-bomb tests : review of the National Cancer Institute report and public health implications
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ISBN: 030906175X 9786612081378 1282081373 030952248X 0585047294 9780585047294 9780309061759 0309173698 Year: 1999 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press,

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Radioactive Fallout - United States - adverse effects. --- Ionizing radiation --- Iodine --- Nuclear weapons testing victims --- Thyroid gland --- Radiation carcinogenesis --- Radiation, Ionizing --- Radiation Effects --- Public Health --- Iodine Radioisotopes --- Public Policy --- Radiation Dosage --- Radioactive Fallout --- United States --- Environmental Exposure --- Iodine Isotopes --- Social Control Policies --- Health --- Environmental Pollution --- Radiologic Health --- Radiation --- North America --- Radioisotopes --- Environment and Public Health --- Medicine --- Radioactive Pollutants --- Radiometry --- Isotopes --- Social Control, Formal --- Investigative Techniques --- Population Characteristics --- Health Care --- Policy --- Health Occupations --- Complex Mixtures --- Americas --- Electromagnetic Phenomena --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Physical Phenomena --- Inorganic Chemicals --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Social Sciences --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Sociology --- Geographic Locations --- Phenomena and Processes --- Geographicals --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Environmental Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Dosage --- Toxicology --- Health risk assessment --- Cancer --- Epidemiology --- Iodine in the body. --- Dosage. --- Epidemiology. --- Nevada Test Site (Nev.) --- Radiation-induced cancer --- Radiation-induced tumors --- Tumors, Radiation-induced --- Atomic weapons testing victims --- Victims of nuclear weapons testing --- Dosage of ionizing radiation --- AEC Nevada Test Site (Nev.) --- Nellis Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range (Nev.) --- Nevada Atomic Test Site (Nev.) --- Nevada Nuclear Test Site (Nev.) --- Nevada Proving Grounds (Nev.) --- NTS (Nevada Test Site) (Nev.) --- Body composition --- Carcinogenesis --- Radiation injuries --- Endocrine glands --- Hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis --- Radiation victims --- Halogens --- Measurement --- Nevada National Security Site (Nev.)


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Recent Advances in GPR Imaging
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ISBN: 3039218115 3039218107 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The Special Issue (SI) “Recent Advances in GPR Imaging” offers an up-to-date overview of state-of-the-art research activities dealing with the development of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology and its recent advances in imaging in the different fields of application. In fact, the advances experimented with over the last few decades with regard to the appearance of new GPR systems and the need to manage large amounts of data suggest an increasing interest in the development of new signal processing algorithms and modeling, as well as in the use of three-dimensional (3D) imaging techniques.


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Improved Reservoir Models and Production Forecasting Techniques for Multi-Stage Fractured Hydrocarbon Wells
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ISBN: 303921893X 3039218921 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The massive increase in energy demand and the related rapid development of unconventional reservoirs has opened up exciting new energy supply opportunities along with new, seemingly intractable engineering and research challenges. The energy industry has primarily depended on a heuristic approach—rather than a systematic approach—to optimize and tackle the various challenges when developing new and improving the performance of existing unconventional reservoirs. Industry needs accurate estimations of well production performance and of the cumulative estimated ultimate reserves, accounting for uncertainty. This Special Issue presents 10 original and high-quality research articles related to the modeling of unconventional reservoirs, which showcase advanced methods for fractured reservoir simulation, and improved production forecasting techniques.


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Toxic immanence
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ISBN: 9780228013266 0228013267 Year: 2022 Publisher: Montreal Kingston London Chicago

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A critical reflection on the potential of nuclear humanities, Toxic Immanence offers intellectual strategies for resisting and abolishing the global nuclear regime. This collection develops a discourse between the fields of nuclear knowledge and integrates the nuclear humanities with environmental justice and Indigenous rights activism and arts.

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