F. W. Lengemann

Environmental Radioactivity, Merril Eisenbud, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. 1963, 430 pp., $13.50.

Radioactivity in Man: Whole Body Counting and the Effects of Internal Gamma Ray-Emitting Radioisotopes, George R. Meneely (Ed.). Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois. 1965, 672 pp., $24.50.

Whole Body Counting, Proceedings of the Symposium on Whole Body Counting Held by the International Atomic Energy Agency at the Neue Hofburg, Vienna (June 12-16, 1961), National Agency for International Publications, 317 East 34th Street, New York 10016, 1962, 535 pp., $10.00.

How to Detect and Measure Radiation, Harold S. Renne, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., New York, 1963, 160 pp., $3.95.

An Introduction to Radiation Counters and Detectors, C. C. H. Washtell, George Newnes Ltd., London, 1960, 115 pp., $7.50.

Liquid Scintillation Counting, Proceedings of a Conference Held at Northwestern University (August 20-22, 1957), Carlos G. Bell, Jr., and F. Newton Hayes (Eds.), Pergamon Press, Inc., New York, 1958, 292 pp., $10.00.

Reports

Fundamental Nuclear Energy Research, A Special Report of the United Stales Atomic Energy Commission (December 1963), Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402, 407 pp., $2.50. Whole Body Counters as Medical Aids, pp. 11-13; Acute Whole Body Irradiation Effects, pp. 35-41; Chronic Whole Body Irradiation Effects, pp. 42-48.

Radioactive Contamination of Materials Used in Scientific Research, James R. DeVoe, Nuclear Science Series Report No. 34, National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council, Washington, D. C. 20418, 1961, $2.00. Appendix VIII, The Negotiations and Developmental Work on Low Activity Glasses for Use in Whole Body Counters, pp. 109-115.

Articles

Liquid Scintillation Counting of C¹4 and H³ Labeled Amino Acids and Proteins, M. Vaughan and others, Science, 126: 446 (Sept. 6, 1957).

Phosphorescence in Liquid Scintillation Counting of Proteins, R. J. Herberg, Science, 128: 199 (July 25, 1958).

Suspension Counting of Carbon-14 in Scintillation Gels, B. L. Funt and A. Hetherington, Science, 125: 986 (May 17, 1957).

Liquid Scintillation Counting of Aqueous Solutions of Carbon-14 and Tritium, J. Shapira and W. H. Perkins, Science, 131: 414 (Feb. 12, 1960).

Alone in the Dark with a Panic Button: Purdue’s Whole Body Counter, Martin Mann, Popular Science, 181: 90 (October 1962).

Counter as a Test Instrument, W. H. Bucksbaum, Electronics World, 68: 48 (November 1962).

Spiral Capillary Plastic Scintillation Flow Counter for Beta Assay, B. L. Funt and A. Hetherington, Science, 129: 1429 (May 22, 1959).

Motion Pictures

Available for loan without charge from the AEC Headquarters Film Library, Division of Public Information, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C. 20545 and from other AEC film libraries.

Understanding the Atom: Radiation Detection by Scintillation, 30 minutes, black and white, sound, 1962. Produced by the Educational Broadcasting Corporation under the direction of the AEC’s Division of Isotopes Development. This semitechnical film describes the scintillation process. Solid and liquid scintillators are shown, a description of a photomultiplier is given, and the pulse-height analyzer principle is illustrated.

Human Radioactivity Measurements, 9 minutes, color and sound, 1958. Produced by AEC’s Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. This film shows a method developed at LASL to monitor possible intake of radiation by personnel. The liquid scintillation counter is large enough to contain a man and sensitive enough to detect even the minute amounts of his natural gamma radioactivity.

Ionizing Radiation in Humans, 15 minutes, color and sound, 1958. Produced by AEC’s Argonne National Laboratory. Describes the design and operation of ANL’s whole body counter for determining identification, quantity, and location of internally deposited radioelements. Various techniques in accumulation of data are shown.

Liquid Scintillation Counting, 14 minutes, color and sound, 1958. Produced by the Jam Handy Organization for the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. Describes the use of a liquid scintillator for counting low-energy beta emitters commonly used in biological and medical tracer experiments. Also describes counting techniques, how the counters work, and how a sample is prepared.

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NUCLEAR POWER AND MERCHANT SHIPPING

PLUTONIUM

OUR ATOMIC WORLD

NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR DESALTING

CONTROLLED NUCLEAR FUSION

WHOLE BODY COUNTERS

PLOWSHARE

POPULAR BOOKS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE

SNAP, NUCLEAR SPACE REACTORS

NUCLEAR REACTORS

ATOMS, NATURE, AND MAN

MICROSTRUCTURE OF MATTER

SYNTHETIC TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS

COMPUTERS

RESEARCH REACTORS

GENETIC EFFECTS OF RADIATION

POWER FROM RADIOISOTOPES

NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING

RARE EARTHS

FOOD PRESERVATION BY IRRADIATION

FALLOUT FROM NUCLEAR TESTS

RADIOACTIVE WASTES

RADIOISOTOPES IN INDUSTRY

ATOMS AT THE SCIENCE FAIR

RADIOISOTOPES AND LIFE PROCESSES

ATOMIC FUEL

ATOMIC POWER SAFETY

DIRECT CONVERSION OF ENERGY

CAREERS IN ATOMIC ENERGY

RADIOISOTOPES IN MEDICINE

ACCELERATORS

NUCLEAR TERMS, A BRIEF GLOSSARY

NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS

ATOMS IN AGRICULTURE

NUCLEAR CLOCKS

POWER REACTORS IN SMALL PACKAGES

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

YOUR BODY AND RADIATION

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