Element of Risk
The Politics of Radon
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 May 1995
- ISBN 9780195093674
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 203x134x13 mm
- Weight 236 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, line drawings 0
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Short description:
In this book Leonard Cole asks straightforward questions on Washington's handling of the radon issue. He challenges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's risk-cost assessment of radon levels in language that is easily accessible to the lay person while providing thoughtful solutions that should be of interest to home-owners as well as scientists and policymakers.
MoreLong description:
Radiation, radioactivity, radon: these are words that, since Hiroshima, the Cold War and Three Mile Island, have conjured fear and fascination for many Americans. The danger of radon - a colourless, odourless gas that could seemingly strike any home and afflict its residents with cancer, was brought home in the 1980s when whole neighbourhoods were deemed unsafe due to a perceived threat from radon. But how much of a threat does radon really pose? Is the government's aggressive policy warranted. Indeed, is their a legitimate threat at all? These are the questios Leonard A. Code asks in this provocative and fascinating new book, and his answers are ones that all homeowners will want to understand. In clear, non-technical language, Code dispells many of the myths surrounding radon as he makes recommendations for a coherent reasonable environmental policy towards what is, certainly, a dangerous gas. As he carefully traces the development of the US indoor radon policy, Code illuminates the many scientific uncertainties that lie behind it, exposes the policies of those who stand to gain from radon policy decisions made in Washington, and challenges the EPA's risk-cost assessment of radon levels. Thoughtful and timely, ELEMENT OF RISK illuminates one of the most important public policyissues of our time.
Splendid... Cole is so deft in analyzing the science and politics of radon that it is had to know whether to laugh or cry.
Table of Contents:
Preface
The Development of Radon Policy
The Science of Uncertainty
Leapers and Loopers
Lopers and Loppers
Federal Regulators and Congress
Radon in the States and the Case of New Jersey
Private and Public Interests
The Press, Science, and Radon
Radon Policies in Other Countries: Sweden and Finland
Democracy, Risk, and Reason
Appendix A: Radioactive Decay Chain of Uranium-238
Appendix B: Letters
Appendix C: The Environmental Protection Agency/Advertising Council Messages
Appendix D: Differing Perspectives on Radon Policy by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy
Appendix E: Radon Policies of the American Medical Association and the Health Physics Society
Index
