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Radiation Resources

• DOE Office of Environmental Management
  This site offers much information on, and many links to, topics related to nuclear radiation and the environment
• Radiation in the Environment
  A particularly good link from the above DOE site, providing a discussion of the sources of radiation in the environment
• Sources of Radiation
  A graph showing the sources of background radiation for the U.S. population and their relative contributions to a person's annual background radiation dose
• Radiation and Life
  This is an excellent presentation on radiation for the general public, provided by an Australian site
• Radiation and Health Physics
  Health physics topics for the general public and the health physics community, maintained by the University of Michigan Student Chapter of the Health Physics Society
• Radiation Protection and the Human Radiation Experiments
  A two year study by the Human Studies Project Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, addressing questions concerning the ethics and conduct of human radiation experiments that were carried out by the Los Alamos researchers from the Manhattan Project days through the 1960s
• Nuclear Power Q&A
  Questions and answers about nuclear power, designed and maintained by the University of Missouri-Rolla's chapter of the American Nuclear Society
• nuke Home Page
  Many, many links to nuclear related items
• Definitions of Radiation Terms
  Definitions of radiation related terms, as provided by Idaho State University