Health Physics Society Journal

On the cover: A study of direct contamination to fruit and leaf-to-fruit transfer factors for 134Cs and 85Sr was done on grapevines, apple trees, and pear trees to help assess public dose from accidental environmental contamination. See article by F. Carini et al. on page 520 for more information.

Contents of Vol. 77, No. 5, November 1999

EDITORIAL

Submitting a Manuscript Should Not Be an Intimidating Process — Ken Miller

NEWS ON THE NET

What's New? — Bruce Busby

REVIEW PAPER

A Brief History of Nuclear Criticality Accidents in Russia—1953-1997 — George J. Vargo

PAPERS

Elevated Urine Uranium Excretion by Soldiers with Retained Uranium Shrapnel — Frank J. Hooper, Katherine S. Squibb, Eliot L. Siegel, Kathleen McPhaul, and James P. Keogh

¹³⁴Cs and ⁸⁵Sr in Fruit Plants Following Wet Aerial Deposition — F. Carini, I. Anguissola Scotti, and P. G. D'Alessandro

Finger Doses Received During ¹⁵³Sm Injections — John E. Pattison

Improved Estimates of Effective Dose Equivalent Using Two Optimal Anisotropic Responding Dosimeters — H. J. Han, W. D. Reece, and C. H. Kim

Validation of a Geologically Based Radon Risk Map: Are the Indoor Radon Concentrations Higher in High-Risk Areas? — Lennart Friis, Ned Carter, Olof Nordman, Abraham Simeonidis, and Stefan Järdö

An Application of the NCRP Screening Techniques to Atmospheric Radon Releases from the Former Feed Materials Production Center Near Fernald, Ohio — Charles W. Miller

Investigation of Atmospheric, Mechanical and Other Pressure Effects Influencing the Levels of Radon and Radon Progeny in Buildings — Frederick Marley

Mass Attenuation Coefficients of Clear-Pb for Photons from ¹²⁵I, ¹⁰³Pd, ^99MTc, ¹⁹²Ir, ¹³⁷Cs, and ⁶⁰Co — Mark J. Rivard, David S. Waid, and Jacek G. Wierzbicki

NOTES

MAXED, A Computer Code for Maximum Entropy Deconvolution of Multisphere Neutron Spectrometer Data — Marcel Reginatto and Paul Goldhagen

An Instrument for Measuring Equilibrium-Equivalent ²²²Rn and ²²⁰Rn Concentrations with Etched Track Detectors — Weihai Zhuo and Takao Iida

OPERATIONAL TOPICS

Radiation Safety System of the B-Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center — J. C. Liu, P. Bong, B. Gray, X. S. Mao, G. Nelson, W. R. Nelson, D. Schultz, and J. Seeman

Characterization and Minimization of Extremity Doses During ³²P Metabolic Cell Labeling — Steve Bursik, Jill Meisenhelder, and Gerard Spahn

Xenon Spill Distribution and Room Clearance — Charles A. Kelsey and Robert J. Telepak

BOOK REVIEWS

Occupational Exposures at Nuclear Power Plants Seventh Annual Report of the ISOE Programme — Reviewed by Michael T. Ryan

Decommisioning and Restoration of Nuclear Facilities — Reviewed by Michael T. Ryan

OTHER CONTENT

In Memoriam—Edward Joseph Vallario
Citation by Jack Selby

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