[PDF] Protection Of Food And Agriculture Against Nuclear Attack eBook

Author : United States Agricultural Research Ser
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2018-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781379210498

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Author : U. S. Agricultural Research Service
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2017-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780260539502

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Excerpt from Protection of Food and Agriculture Against Nuclear Attack: A Guide for Agricultural Leaders The area of destruction resulting from the blast, heat, and initial radiation will vary with the size of the weapon, the height of the explosion, and to some extent with the terrain and atmospheric conditions at the time of the explosion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN :

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The report presents the results of the Workshop on Survival of Food Crops and Livestock in the Event of Nuclear War, held in Front Royal, Virginia, on October 17-19, 1972. Results included delineation of the status of research and research requirements in the following fields: livestock vulnerability, crop vulnerability, ecological and environmental disturbances and effects, radiation constraints on operations (radiation denial), agricultural production system relationships, salvage, damage assessment, and operational planning and implementation. Appendices A, B, and C represent a major part of the report. Appendix A reports on the fallout properties and their significance to agriculture. Appendix B is a review of beta dose research and its application to agricultural problems. Appendix C is a summary report of the Stanford Research Institute beta dosimetry research in 1972. Condensed versions of three formal foreign presentations are given in Appendix D. (Modified author abstract).

Author : Tomoko M. Nakanishi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9811332185

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This open access book presents the findings from on-site research into radioactive cesium contamination in various agricultural systems affected by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011. This third volume in the series reports on studies undertaken at contaminated sites such as farmland, forests, and marine and freshwater environments, with a particular focus on livestock, wild plants and mushrooms, crops, and marine products in those environments. It also provides additional data collected in the subsequent years to show how the radioactivity levels in agricultural products and their growing environments have changed with time and the route by which radioactive materials entered agricultural products as well as their movement between different components (e.g., soil, water, and trees) within an environmental system (e.g., forests). The book covers various topics, including radioactivity testing of food products; decontamination trials for rice and livestock production; the state of contamination in, trees, mushrooms, and timber; the dynamics of radioactivity distribution in paddy fields and upland forests; damage incurred by the forestry and fishery industries; and the change in consumers’ attitudes. Chapter 19 introduces a real-time radioisotope imaging system, a pioneering technique to visualize the movement of cesium in soil and in plants. This is the only book to provide systematic data on the actual change of radioactivity, and as such is of great value to all researchers who wish to understand the effect of radioactive fallout on agriculture. In addition, it helps the general public to better understand the issues of radio-contamination in the environment. The project is ongoing; the research groups from the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences of The University of Tokyo continue their work in the field to further evaluate the long-term effects of the Fukushima accident.

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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Agriculture
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Set includes revised editions of some issues.