Health Physics in the 21st Century || Part Introduction

✍ Scribed by Bevelacqua, Joseph John

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
• Year: 2008
• Weight: 27 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3527408223
• DOI: 10.1002/9783527622061.part1

✦ Synopsis

I Overview of Volume I

The first volume of Health Physics in the 21st provides a tie between twentieth century and twenty-first century health physics. Chapters dealing with fission reactors, high-energy accelerators, light sources, and low-Earth orbit missions bridge these two centuries and provide logical ties between these time periods. Other topics involving muon colliders, X-ray and g-ray lasers, planetary space travel, interstellar travel, and fusion power reactors push the time line deeper into or beyond the twenty-first century.

Volume I introduces new topics and basic knowledge required to understand the anticipated evolution of the health physics field. Background information is provided in 12 appendixes to smooth the transition of information needed to comprehend the emerging radiation generating technologies.