Research Catalog

Title

Radon, radium, and uranium in drinking water / edited by C. Richard Cothern and Paul A. Rebers.

Publication

Chelsea, Mich. : Lewis Publishers, ©1990.

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Additional Authors

• Cothern, C. Richard.
• Rebers, Paul A.

Description

x, 286 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This volume covers most aspects of radionuclides in drinking water, including specific coverage of occurrence, mechanisms resulting in human exposure, health effects, quantitative risk assessment, analytical chemistry methodology, treatment technology, and enforcement aspects."--Publisher description.

Subject

• Radioactive pollution of water
• Drinking water > Contamination
• Radon > Environmental aspects
• Radium > Environmental aspects
• Uranium > Environmental aspects
• Radium
• Radon
• Uranium
• Water
• uranium
• aquatic
• water (inorganic material)
• Water
• Uranium
• Radon
• Radium
• Drinking water > Contamination
• Radioactive pollution of water
• Radium > Environmental aspects
• Radon > Environmental aspects
• Uranium > Environmental aspects
• Gesundheitsgefährdung
• Radionuklid
• Trinkwasser
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Eau potable > Contamination
• Eaux continentales > Contamination radioactive
• Eau > Contamination radioactive
• Radon > Aspect de l'environnement
• Radium > Aspect de l'environnement
• Uranium > Aspect de l'environnement
• Environmental Exposure
• Water Pollution, Radioactive

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Scientific background for the development of regulations for radionuclides in drinking water / Paul Milvy and C. Richard Cothern -- 2. Analysis of the health risk from ingested radon / Douglas J Crawford-Brown -- 3. Risk assessment and control management of radon in drinking water / William A. Mills -- 4. Treatment technology for removing radon from small community water supplies / Nancy E. Kinner, Peter A. Quern, Gretchen S. Schell, Carol E. Lessard, and Jonathan A. Clement -- 5. Radon transferred from drinking water into house air / Charles T. Hess, Michael A. Vietti, Edward B. Lachapelle, and James F. Guillemette -- 6. An experimental test of the linear no-threshold theory of radiation carcinogenesis / Bernard L. Cohen -- 7. Relationship of radium and radon with geological formations / Jacqueline Michel -- 8. Occurrence of radionuclides in drinking water, a national study / Jon Longtin -- 9. Raid on sanity: policy and economic analysis of radionuclide removal from drinking water / David W. Schnare -- 10. Gastrointestinal absorption of soluble uranium from drinking water by humans / McDonald E. Wrenn, Narayani P. Singh, Herbert Ruth, Marvin L. Rallison, and David P. Burleigh -- 11. Determination of uranium in an analytical chemistry laboratory / Chung-King Liu, Robert W. Holloway, and John Akridge -- 12. Removal of uranium from drinking water by conventional treatment methods / Thomas J. Sorg -- 13. Setting up a laboratory for radon in water measurements / Charles T. Hess and Susan M. Beasley -- 14. Analytical methodology for radium in food and water / Edmound J. Baratta -- 15. The price of confidence: the rationality of radium removal from drinking water / Douglas J. Crawford-Brown -- 16. Removal of radium from drinking water / Dennis A. Clifford -- 17. Disposal of radium from drinking water treatment / Norman Hahn.

ISBN

• 0873712072
• 9780873712071

LCCN

90031868

OCLC

• ocm21077880
• 21077880
• SCSB-1893228

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library