Radiation: An Energy Carrier

This book aims to explain radiation from a somewhat different aspect than its traditional image as something that is scary, dangerous, hazardous, and so on, to produce the correct understanding that radiation is carrying energy, and to convince readers that radiation is not "scary" but controllable and useful. As for radiation itself, many introductions or textbooks have been published, as in radiochemistry, radiobiology, and radiology. In most of them, the biological effects of radiation exposure are the main subjects, which often enhance the feeling that radiation is dangerous, and the effects produced by lower-dose exposure that are difficult to see are hardly discussed.

The present volume mainly focuses on how radiation carries energy, how energy is absorbed in substances as absorbed doses (Gy) or dose equivalents (Sv), how damages or risks appear with the absorbed dose and why the effects of the exposure appear quite differently, depending on properties of the substancesthat were exposed.

Sheds light on radiation from the energetic point of view Clarifies damaging processes as exposure through deposited energy Offers basic knowledge of power exposure and energy absorption, not "dose" as used in radiation biology and radiology

Autorentext

Tetsuo Tanabe is a special-appointment professor at the Research Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (ReCAP), Osaka City University. His work is mainly concerned with nuclear materials, fusion engineering, and tritium science. He received his Doctor of Engineering from Osaka University in 1977. He has been a professor at Nagoya University and Kyushu University and has served in his current position since 2017. He is now an emeritus professor at Nagoya University and Kyushu University.

Inhalt
Radiation Carries Energy.- Radiation (EQ: Energy Quantum).- Sources of Energetic Quanta (EQ) (Radiation Sources).- Irradiation Effects of EQ on Materials (Inorganic- and Organic-Materials, and Living Beings).- Reduction of Exposure, Contamination and Decontamination.- Detection and Measurement of EQ.- Utilization of EQ.-Energy and the History of the Earth.- Energy Use and Radiation.