Health Physics Journal — Volume 72 — Issue 4 — April 1997

Papers

• Early Dose Assessment Following Severe Radiation Accidents

  Ronald E. Gowns, Elizabeth C. Holloway, Mary Ellen Berger, Robert C. Ricks

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 513-518 (April 1997)

• Radiation Protection of Radiosensitive Populations

  Kenneth L. Mossman

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 519-523 (April 1997)

• Neutron Sources in the Varian Clinac 21000/23000 Medical Accelerator Calculated by the EGS4 Code

  X. S. Mao, K. R. Kase, J. C. Liu, W. R. Nelson, J. H. Kleck, S. Johnsen

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 524-529 (April 1997)

• Neutron RBEs for Cytopenia and Repopulation of Stroma and Hematopoietic Stem Cells

  Troyce D. Jones, Max D. Morris, Robert W. Young, Robert A. Kehlet

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 530-543 (April 1997)

• An Estimate of the Total UV-B Exposure for Outdoor Workers During a South–East Queensland Summer

  David K. Airey, Joe C. F. Wong, Robert A. Fleming, Lennox R. Meldrum

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 544-549 (April 1997)

• Loss of Lifetime Due to Radiation Exposure–Averaging Problems

  Jagos J. Raicevic, Milan Merkle, Joachim Ehrhardt, Marko M. Ninkovic

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 550-557 (April 1997)

• Radiation Doses to Critical Groups Since the Early 1950’s Due to Discharges of Liquid Radioactive Waste from Sellafield

  G. J. Hunt

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 558-567 (April 1997)

• A Computerized Implementation of a Non-Linear Equation to Predict Barrier Shielding Requirements

  A. C. Chamberlain, W. J. Strydom

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 568-573 (April 1997)

• Monte Carlo Simulation of Depth-Dose Distributions in TLD-100 Under 90Sr-90Y Irradiation

  M. Rodriguez-Villafuerte, I. Gamboa-DeBuen, M. E. Brandan

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 574-578 (April 1997)

• Reevaluation of the Committed Dose Equivalent from 232th and its Radioactive Progeny

  Dewhey Lee, Kenneth W. Skrable, Clayton S. French

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 579-593 (April 1997)

• Premature Chromosome Condensation Assay for Biodosimetry; Studies with Fission-Neutrons

  P. G. S. Prasanna, C. J. Kolanko, H. M. Gerstenberg, W. F. Blakely

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 594-600 (April 1997)

• Measurement of Radon Decay Products and Thoron Decay Products in Air by Beta Counting Using End-Window Geiger-Muller Counter

  Z. Papp, S. Daroczy

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 601-610 (April 1997)

• Radon Retesting and Mitigation Behavior Among the U.S. Population

  Earl S. Ford, Christie R. Eheman

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 611-614 (April 1997)

• Questionnaire Study of the Lung Cancer Risk from Radon in Homes

  Bernard L. Cohen

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 615-622 (April 1997)

Forum Articles

• Problems in the Radon Vs Lung Cancer Test of the Linear No-Threshold Theory and a Procedure for Resolving Them

  Bernard L. Cohen

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 623-628 (April 1997)

Notes

• Radon Measurements in the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory

  C. Arpesella, B. B. Bam, A. Bassignani, S. Cecchini, G. Colombo, H. Dekhissi, R. Fresca Fantoni, G. Giacomelli, L. Lembo, G. Maltoni, G. Mandrioli, L. Patrizii, C. Sartorio, P. Serra, V. Togo, E. Vilea

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 629-632 (April 1997)

Operational Topics

• Elimination of Tritiated Thymidine from Birds

  Esmeralda Party, Anat Barnea, Ilona Linins, Edward L. Gershey

  Health Phys. 72, No. 4, pp. 633-635 (April 1997)