Radnet: Nuclear Information

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An information resource for persons interested in the public safety consequences and radioecological impact of nuclear accidents and industries

RADNET, Section 1: General Introduction
RADNET, Section 2: Guide to RADNET
RADNET, Section 3: Major Nuclear Accidents-in-Progress

1. Introduction
2. The context: Characteristics of nuclear accidents-in-progress
3. Accidents having a world wide impact
4. Major accidents within the US
5. Major accidents outside the US
6. Future nuclear accidents?
7. Nuclear accident updates

RADNET, Section 4: Definitions and Conversion Factors
RADNET, Section 5: Biologically Significant Radionuclides
RADNET, Section 6: Radiation Protection Guidelines

RADNET, Section 7: Plume Pulse Pathways

RADNET, Section 8: Anthropogenic Radioactivity: Baseline Data

1. Introduction
2. Summary of Atmospheric Nuclear Explosions (¹³⁷Cs)
3. Cumulative Fallout Record (¹³⁷Cs)
4. Cesium Baseline (to 1986)
5. Plutonium and Americium Baseline
6. Radioiodine, Strontium and other nuclides
7. Naturally Occurring Radionuclides (NOR)

RADNET, Section 9: Anthropogenic Radioactivity: Dietary Intake

1. U.S. Radiation Data: Dietary Intake

A. Anthropogenic Radioactivity in Domestic Foods

B. Anthropogenic Radioactivity in Imported Foods

2. Baseline Data: Riso National Laboratory
3. Body Burdens
4. Chernobyl Peak Pulse in U.S.A. Imported Foods

RADNET, Section 10: Chernobyl Fallout Data: Annotated Bibliography

1. Introduction
2. General Bibliography
3. Hot Particles
4. Chernobyl Plume: Country-by-Country Summary

Austria, Bangladesh, Black Sea, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Italy, Japan, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia and former USSR, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia
U.S.A.: Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington

RADNET, Section 11: Anthropogenic Radioactivity: Major Plume Source Points

1. Introduction
2. General Bibliography
3. Nuclear Weapons Test Explosions
4. Nuclear Power Plants
5. United States Military Source Points
6. Russian Military Source Points
7. United Kingdom Source Points
8. Marine Radioactive Waste Dump Sites
9. Nuclear Submarine Accidents and Dump Sites
10. Nuclear Powered Satellite Accidents
11. Uranium Mining, Milling, and Processing
12. Depleted Uranium
13. Sealed Sources, Devices and Radioactive Scrap
14. Other Important Foreign and Miscellaneous Source Points
15. Sabotage and Terrorism
15. Missing Weapons Production High-Level Waste
17. Sewage Sludge

RADNET, Section 12: Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company: Paradigm of the Twilight of the Nuclear Era (Collapse of a Pyramid Scheme)

1. Introduction
2. Public Safety Issues
3. Economic Issues
4. Legal Issues
5. Decommissioning Debacle

A. Introduction
B. Decommissioning Chronicle: August 1997 - September 1998
C. Patterns of Noncompliance
D. Unresolved Issues
E. Decommissioning Chronicle Continued: January - December 1999
F. Decommissioning Chronicle Continued: January 2000 to May 8, 2000
G. Decommissioning Nightmare
H. Decommissioning Debacle Bibliography

RADNET, Section 13: RADLINKS: Internet Links to Nuclear and Environmental Information Sources

Part I. Search Engines

A. WWW Engines
B. Governmental and Research Orientated Search Engines

Part II. Nuclear Information Links

A. Important Non-Governmental Nuclear Information Sources: USA Environmental Organizations
B. Important Non-Governmental Nuclear Information Sources: International Environmental Organizations
C. RADNET Health Physics Links
D. U. S. Federal Government: Nuclear Information Sources
E. International Government: Nuclear Information Sources
F. Academic Institutions and Research Institutes: Nuclear Information Sources
G. Private Industry: Nuclear Information Sources including nuclear power and related nuclear industry links
H. Depleted Uranium: Uranium tipped weapons
I. Y2K and Nuclear Power

Part III. General Information Sources

A. RADNET News Links
B. U.S. Federal Government: Other Links of Interest
C. International Government: Other Links of Interest
D. Other Environmental Links
E. Alternative Energy Links
F. National and International Academic and University Links of Interest
G. Other Non-Governmental Links of Interest

Part IV. RADNET Information and Journal Links

A. WWW Information Resources
B. Journals of Interest

RADNET, Section 14: Bibliography: Ancient Hard Copy Information Sources
RADNET, Section 15: Alerts, Notices, Requests for Assistance and Public Comments
RADNET, Section 16: Center for Biological Monitoring: RADNET Sponsor Information

1. Introduction
2. Publications List
3. Information Wanted and Available

RADNET visitors please note that some sections of RADNET are were under construction or in the process of being revised when this site was archived in 2000. The unfinished annotations in RADLINKS Part III may be particularly irksome.

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1. General Introduction	2. Guide to RADNET	3. Major Nuclear Accidents-in-Progress	4. Definitions and Conversion Factors
5. Biologically Significant Radionuclides	6. Radiation Protection Guidelines	7. Plume Pulse Pathways	8. Anthropogenic Radioactivity: Baseline Data
9. Anthropogenic Radioactivity: Dietary Intake	10. Chernobyl Fallout Data	11. Anthropogenic Radioactivity: Major Plume Source Points	12. Twilight of the Nuclear Era: The Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company
13. RADLINKS: WWW Nuclear and Environmental Information Sources	14. General Bibliography: Ancient Hard Copy	15. ALERTS Notices, Information Wanted, Public Comments	16. RADNET sponsor information


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