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This Page:

• Introduction to Radiation
• Radiation and Health Physics
• Medical Physics
• Nuclear Energy
• Ionising Radiation
• Non-Ionising Radiation
• Agencies and Organizations
• Professional Associations
• Journals (with abstracts available)
• Other Scientific Resources

Introduction to Radiation

• Nuclear science and technology and how it influences your life (American Nuclear Society)
• Radiation and Life (Eric J Hall, Columbia University)
• Radiation Reassessed - The Why Files (US National Institute for Science Education)
• Radiation Guide for Kids (Online Radiology Technician Schools (US))

Radiation and Health Physics

• Chernobyl, Ten Years On, Radiological and Health Impact An appraisal by the NEA Committee on Radiation Protection and Public Health. Published November 1995 by NEA/OECD, Paris. This file contains the complete text of the 112 page report including diagrams. The NEA site contains the full text of many of their reports.
• The Office of Radiation, Chemical & Biological Safety (Michigan State University)
• Radiation Effects Research Foundation (Japan): The binational organization dedicated to the discovery, application, and dissemination of knowledge about health effects in the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Report on Search for Human Radiation Experiment Records 1944 - 1994 (DoE, June 1997)
• Validity of the Linear No Threshold Theory of Radiation Carcinogenesis at Low Doses.

Medical Physics

• BEAM - Monte Carlo Simulation System for modelling radiotherapy sources
• Department of Medical Radiations Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• Medical Physics Home Pages (AAPM): General Medical Physics / Radiology / Nuclear Medicine & PET / Radiation Therapy / Health Physics / Dosimetry Calibration / Computer Topics / Standards.

Medical Imaging

• Centre of Medical Imaging Research, University of Leeds
• The Whole Brain Atlas
• The Visible Human Project

Radiology

• Cancer Center of Excellence (US) - Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
• British Institute of Radiology (UK)
• Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University (US)
• The Medical Radiography Home Page
• The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Radiologists
• Society of Nuclear Medicine (US)
• The University of Washington Radiology Webserver (US) Case of the Week / Radiology Teaching Files / Other Learning Materials / Other Information.

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Nuclear Energy

• Australian Uranium Association - Advocacy body that represents the uranium industry exclusively.
• Dept of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities - Supervising Scientist Division: The Supervising Scientist Division (SSD), is part of the Australian Government's Environment portfolio, and is responsible for environmental oversight of uranium mining activities in the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory of Australia.
• The Virtual Nuclear Tourist: Nuclear power plant design and operation (Joseph Gonyeau).

Ionising Radiation

• Electron Gamma Shower (EGS) Home Page
• NRC Bibliography of EGS Related Papers

Measurement Standards

• Ionizing Radiation Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• NRC Activities and Publications 1995-1997
• Online Papers, NRC (Canada) National Ionizing Radiation Measurement Standards Group.
• University of Wisconsin Radiation Calibration Laboratory

Non-Ionising Radiation

• International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection
• National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences
• UK Government Health Protection Agency - Electromagnetic Fields
• World Health Organization - EMF Project

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Agencies and Organisations

Metrology & Measurement Standards

• CSIRO Div. of Telecommun. & Industrial Physics, National Measurement Laboratory
• International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Physics Laboratory, USA
• National Physical Laboratory (NPL), UK, Ionising Radiation and Acoustics
• NPL: Pointers to Physics/Metrology resources
• NRC's Links to other National Metrology Laboratories & Standardising Organisations

Quality Assurance Standards

• National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA)
• Standards Australia
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Radiation & Nuclear Energy

• Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation (ANSTO) (AU)
• Australian Emergency Management (AU)
• International Atomic Energy Agency
• Radioactive Waste Management in Australia, Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism (AU)
• Health and Safety Executive - Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) (UK) : ONR seeks to keep up and improve safety standards for work with ionising radiations through its licensing powers by assessing safety cases and inspecting sites for licence compliance.
• Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA (FR) :The mission of the NEA is to assist its Member countries in maintaining and further developing, through international co-operation, the scientific, technological and legal bases required for the safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
• Radioactive Waste Links
• United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) (UK) :The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is responsible for the decommissioning of its nuclear reactors and other nuclear liabilities used for the UK nuclear energy R&D program.
• US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) (US) :The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ensureS adequate protection of the public health and safety, the common defence and security, and the environment in the use of nuclear materials in the United States.

Radiation Protection

• Radiation Safety, Department of Health, Victoria
• Radiation Protection Unit, Department of Health and Human Services, Tasmania
• Radiation Health Unit, Queensland Health
• Radiological Council, WA
• Hazardous Materials and Radiation, Dept of Environment & Heritage, NSW
• Health Protection Service, ACT Health
• Radiation Protection Section, Dept of Health, NT
• Radiation Protection Branch, Environment Protection Authority, SA
• International Commission on Radiological Protection
• Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN) (FR)
• Health Protection Agency (UK) - Radiation Protection Division (UK)
• National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) (US)
• National Radiation Laboratory (New Zealand) (NZ)

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• Australian Department of Health and Ageing
• US - Environmental Protection Agency - The mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment (air, water, and land) upon which life depends.
• World Health Organization(WHO) - Western Pacific Region
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• US National Institute of Health (NIH)
• IAEA - Radiation Protection of Patients (RPoP) - International Atomic Energy Agency information to help health professionals achieve safer use of radiation in medicine for the benefit of patients

Uranium Mining

• Dept of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities - Supervising Scientist Division: The Supervising Scientist Division (SSD), is part of the Australian Government's Environment portfolio, and is responsible for environmental oversight of uranium mining activities in the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory of Australia.

Professional Associations

• Australasian College of Physical Scientists & Engineers in Medicine
• Australasian Radiation Protection Society Inc.
• Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine
• The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Radiologists
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) (US)
• American Institute of Physics (US)
• American Nuclear Society (US)
• American Physical Society (US)
• European Physical Society (US)
• Health Physics Society (US)
• Institute of Physics (UK)
• International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA)

Journals (with abstracts available)

• Annals of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)

 

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Other Scientific Resources

Medicine & Biology

• HealthInsite
• Medical Matrix - Ranked, peer-reviewed clinical medicine resources

Cancer

• Cancer Council ACT
• Cancer Council Australia
• Cancer Council NSW
• Cancer Council NT
• Cancer Council Queensland
• Cancer Council SA
• Cancer Council Tasmania
• Cancer Council Victoria
• Cancer Council WA
• CancerNet (US National Cancer Institute)
• Cancer Web
• OncoLink (University of Pennsylvania)

Genetics

• KUMC Genetics Education Center: Human genetics and the human genome project.
• The Genome Database (Johns Hopkins University)

Physics

• Physics World - Institute of Physics website

Statistics & Epidemiology

• Science Without Sense: The Risky Business of Public Health Research (Steven J. Milloy)
• A Guide to the Web for Statisticians (University of Queensland)
• StatLib (Carnegie Mellon University)

History of Science

• Australian Science Archives Project

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