Health Physics Society Journal

July 2010, Volume 99, Number 1

On the cover: Cutaway view of typical reactor building illustrating locations where neutron exposures can occur [Illustration obtained from the Hanford Declassified Document Retrieval System (DDRS; U.S. Department of Energy); annotations to the drawing have been added for clarity]. See article by Timothy D. Taulbee and colleagues on page 26 for more information.

CONTENTS

PAPERS

Reconstruction of Radiation Doses in a Case-Control Study of Thyroid Cancer Following the Chernobyl Accident — Irina Zvonova, Oleg Vlasov, Angelica Bratilova, Yury Gavrilin, Guennadi Goulko, Masaharu Hoshi, Ausrele Kesminiene, Sergey Shinkarev, Vanessa Tenet, Elisabeth Cardis, and André Bouville

Skyshine Radiation Resulting from 6 MV and 10 MV Photon Beams from a Medical Accelerator — Deirdre H. Elder, Joseph F. Harmon, and Thomas B. Borak

A Bounding Estimate of Neutron Dose Based on Measured Photon Dose around Single Pass Reactors at the Hanford Site — Timothy D. Taulbee, Samuel E. Glover, Gregory V. Macievic, Mickey Hunacek, Cheryl Smith, Gary W. DeBord, Donald Morris, and Jack Fix

Distribution of ¹³⁷Cs in Rat Tissues after Various Schedules of Chronic Ingestion — Elie Tourlonias, Jean-Marc Bertho, Rodolfo Gurriaran, Philippe Voisin, and François Paquet

Effects of Ionizing Radiation Exposure on Arabidopsis Thaliana — Takako Kurimoto, John V.H. Constable, and Amir Huda

Krypton Gas Cylinders as a Source of Radiation — Helmut W. Fischer, Tom Bielefeld, and Bernd Hettwig

ICNIRP STATEMENT

ICNIRP Statement—Protection of Workers against Ultraviolet Radiation — The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection

CORRESPONDENCE

Moderated ²⁵²Cf Spectrum Presented by Cummings — Scott O. Schwahn

Reply to Schwahn — Frederick Cummings

BOOK REVIEWS

Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20^th Century Vienna — Reviewed by Joel O. Lubenau

Fusion—The Energy of the Universe — Reviewed by Edward Waller

OTHER CONTENT

News and Notices

Health Physics Society Prospectus

Health Physics Society Affiliate Members

Author Guidelines

Advertisers Guide

Advertisers Index

Up and Coming

Health Physics (ISSN 0017-9078) is the Official Journal of the Health Physics Society and is published monthly by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 351 West Camden Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-2436. For news and abstracts, and to search past issues of the Health Physics Journal, please visit the Health Physics Journal website.