An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

WALKER, J. Samuel

2 entries
  • 7784

Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000.


Subjects: PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health, TOXICOLOGY › History of Toxicology, TOXICOLOGY › Radiation Exposure
  • 11856

The road to Yucca Mountain: The development of radioactive waste policy in the United States,

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009.

"In The Road to Yucca Mountain, Walker covers the U.S. government's controversial attempts to address the engineering and social issues associated with high-level radioactive waste repository (HLRWR) management and spent reactor fuel (SRF). He starts with the Manhattan Project and works through the policy debate. In 1987, Yucca Mountain, Nevada emerged as the most likely candidate for a repository. He explicates the United States Atomic Energy Commission's flop with its first attempt to build a HLRWR in a Kansas salt mine. He addresses deep geological disposal and surface storage of HLRW and SRF as well as fuel reprocessing" (Wikipedia article on J. Samuel Walker, accessed 3-2020).



Subjects: TOXICOLOGY › Radiation Exposure