Fallout forensics hike radiation toll

Radiation Fallout—Guam

Radiation injury and effects of early fallout.

This is the second of four articles on the medical aspects of nuclear explosions. Last week described the blast and heat effects and explained that with modern large bombs significant radiation injury was likely to be due to fallout rather than to the radiation emitted by the explosion itself because most people subjected to the extremely short-lived initial radiation would be killed or fatally...

Reduction of fallout radiation hazards in health installations.

The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance for Canadian hospital medical directors in planning the provision of protection for their patients and staff against gamma radiation hazard from nuclear war. The implications of the distribution of fallout in Canada are that the probability of exposures in excess of 600 r in the period "96 hours after fallout" is high in Southern Ontario and Queb...

Ecological Zones: A Hike Up Mount Washington

Career Development as a Long-distance Hike

Traditional images of achievement do not capture today’s more complex career development realities. Approaching career development as a long-distance expedition can help professionals in addressing the strenuous challenges they face, in seeing that a career can be built in many ways, and in taking a long-term view of their journeys. Skills are like muscles, selfefficacy is like sturdy boots, ad...