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"One big problem with man-made radiation: It isn't going away any time soon. Even if all nuclear reactors were halted and decommissioned tomorrow, the radioactive material that fueled them would remain deadly for tens of thousands of years. So, it's best to get used to it. In A Field Guide to Radiation, Wayne Biddle provides an overview of man-made radiation, decoding the terminology and helping readers to understand the difference between beryllium and beta particles (the former being relatively benign)."
"Witty, succinct and handily organized in an A-Z format."
"An indispensable volume for every library. . . . A very readable mini-encyclopedia."
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Wayne Biddle won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the "Star Wars" antimissile project. He is the author of five previous books, including A Field Guide to Germs, winner of the American Medical Writers Association's Walter C. Alvarez Honor Award, and Dark Side of the Moon, which was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
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