Trace element migration during UF4 bomb reduction: Implications to metal fuel production, worker health and safety, and nuclear forensics

Getting nuclear-bomb fuel out of radiopharmaceuticals.

www.thelancet.com Vol 371 March 8, 2008 795 Aggressive marketing practices for breastmilk substitutes have been blamed for the decline of breastfeeding in the Philippines, where only 16·1% of Filipino infants aged 4–5 months are exclusively breastfed, half stop exclusive breastfeeding by the third week of life, and 13% are never breastfed (the lowest ever-breastfed rates in 56 countries). The D...

Recent Fukushima nuclear detonation, Chernobyl nuclear fallout, three mile island nuclear accident and atomic bomb explosion – rethinking the effects of nuclear radiations over human health

Background: The earlier Atomic Bomb explosion in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and three worth mentioning nuclear accidents - detonation at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Chernobyl nuclear fallout and an accident at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant have made us more worried about the secure exploitation of nuclear energy. The central focus of this paper is to review radiation-mediated health e...

Forging solutions to health worker migration.

Worker Safety and Health : The Swedish Difference

In this book, Steven Kelman of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government compares the behavior of two government agencies with similar missions: the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the United States and the Arbetarskyddsverket or Worker Protection Board in Sweden. As James Q. Wilson notes in a preface, Kelman emerges with a paradox: in "[t]he United States, that pre-eminent commer...

Trace Element Research on Health and Diseases