Part I of "Living With Radiation" presents the essence of what has been found by extensive field experience to be a practical approach to the understanding of the industrial radiation hazard. This is a layman's understanding of the hazards of radiation. Table of contents: benefits of the atomic age; problem of hazard; external radiation problem; protection from external radiation; internal radiation problems; protection from internal radiation hazards; contamination; instruments and personnel dosimetry; a little radiation physics; and atomic fission.

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