The linear no-threshold (LNT) dose-effect relationship has been consistently used by most radiation epidemiologists to estimate cancer mortality risk. The large scattering of data by International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC (Vrijheid et al. 2007; Therry-Chef et al. 2007; Cardis et al. 2007), interpreted in accordance with LNT, has been previously demonstrated (Fornalski and Dobrzyński ...

Nuclear Geophysics is essential to the oil, gas and uranium industries. The initial development of nuclear geophysics was focused on developing techniques needed by the oil industry. Developments in nuclear physics and computational analysis were immediately used this field. Today, techniques developed in nuclear geophysics are also used by the coal and metalliferous mining industries and contr...

The French nuclear industry deals with technologies which will soon be thirty years old. If such technologies are not renewed they must last for another ten yearsor more if the decision is taken to keep them working. There is a risk of technological obsolescencesomething which is allowed for in other national and international projects. There is also the question of constant commercial demandso...

Purpose – Aims to clarify the use of “nuclear” robots with special reference to one UK contractor (Magnox) and the cost-effectiveness of its decommissioning programme. Design/methodology/approach – Goes through the protocol of the use of robots in the disposal of contaminated scrap. Findings – Justifies the use of a built-to-order modular linear (Cartesian) robot system required by Magnox. Orig...

We constructed job-exposure profiles and assessed quality of health care in 39 of 47 current and former workers from a nuclear installation in the Negev whose files were referred to us for assessment of a possible work-related aspect of their tumors. The workers, all male except one, began employment at various times from the reactor construction and were engaged in different tasks in laborator...