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The development of nuclear technologies for war, medicine, and energy production dramatically increased the number of people exposed to artificial radioactivity and raised new stakes and questions about protecting them. This volume examines how the establishment of standards and protocols for radiation protection was not only a technical process, but also the byproduct of extensive and ongoing negotiations among scientists, states, international bodies, lawyers, economists, companies, unions, and activists. Over time, exposed individuals-whether Japanese survivors, accident or fallout victims, atomic veterans, or workers-have leveraged their own experiences of radiation exposure to challenge powerful institutions and their standards. Contributors explore radiation risk and protection policies across the globe, from Japan to Canada, the United Kingdom to North Africa, and Spain to Greece. They excavate the legal, scientific, diplomatic, and personal challenges posed by radiation protection. Chapters move from the individual and institutional to the global level, arguing that issues of radiation exposure, like so many other forms of risk, are never merely personal but deeply, often invisibly, political and diplomatic.
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"This deeply researched collection is a timely reminder of the distributed and often intentionally downplayed risks, both past and present, of the nuclear world. Chapters highlight the complex history of the safety standards for radiation protection and the ongoing difficulties of holding the responsible authorities accountable for the harms to people and the environment."
Soraya de Chadarevian, University of California, Los Angeles
"Spanning many domains, Negotiating Radiation Protection demonstrates how debates among stakeholders directly shape radiation protection standards and practices-and the lives of those exposed. It is a timely and groundbreaking volume destined to be a field-defining classic for understanding the origins and future of the global nuclear order."
Toshihiro Higuchi, Georgetown University
"Journeying across five continents and alighting at locations as diverse as mines and crash sites, meeting rooms and laboratories, blast zones and field stations, the contributors of Negotiating Radiation Protection develop truly transnational standpoints on the development of knowledges and standards surrounding radiation exposure. The volume showcases the situated, multi-sited, and contingent na
Mary Mitchell, New Jersey Institute of Technology