Resources

• Acronyms of Radiation (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Acute Radiation Syndrome (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Biological Effects of Radiation (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
• Consumer Products Containing Radioactive Materials (Health Physics Society) - Links to PDF File
• Depleted Uranium (DU) (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File
• Dept. of Homeland Security
• Dirty Bombs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation
• Estimating Risk (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• FDA Approves First New Drug Application for Treatment of Radiation Contamination Due to Cesium or Thallium (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Food Irradiation (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Frequently Asked Questions about a Radiation Emergency (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Frequently Asked Questions on Cabinet X-Ray Systems (Center for Devices and Radiological Health)
• Frequently Asked Questions on Potassium Iodide (KI) (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)
• Halogen Bulbs (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)
• Home Preparation Procedure for Emergency Administration of Potassium Iodide Tablets to Infants and Small Children (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)
• Homeland Security Advisory System (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• How Does Radiation Affect the Public? (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
• Ionizing Radiation: No. 1 (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Ionizing Radiation: No. 2 (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Irradiated Mail (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Man-Made Radiation: Medicine & Nuclear Power (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Man-Made Radiation: Radiological Emergencies (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Medical Management of the Acute Radiation Syndrome (American College of Physicians)
• Microwave Oven Radiation (Center for Devices and Radiological Health)
• Nasopharyngeal Radium Irradiation (NRI) (National Cancer Institute)
• National Center for Environmental Health
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• National Security Emergencies: Things to Know (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Natural Radiation (Environmental Protection Agency)
• No Excess Mortality Risk Found in Counties with Nuclear Facilities
• Nuclear Power Plant Emergency (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Nuclear Radiation and the Thyroid (American Thyroid Association) - Links to PDF File
• Nuclear Terrorism & Health Effects (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Possible Health Effects of Radiation Exposure on Unborn Babies (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Potassium Iodide (KI) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Potassium Iodide Pills: Protection against Radiation Exposure (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Prussian Blue (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Questions and Answers: I-131 and Radioactive Fallout (National Cancer Institute)
• Radiation Exposure (Medline Plus)
• Radiation Exposure (National Institutes of Health)
• Radiation Exposure in X-Ray Examinations (Radiological Society of North America)
• Radiation Protection Basics (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Radiation Protection Roles (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Radiation Shields: Do They ‘Cell’ Consumers Short? (Federal Trade Commission)
• Radioactive I-131 from Fallout (National Cancer Institute)
• Radioactively Contaminated Superfund Sites (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Sheltering in Place during a Radiation Emergency (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Smoke Detectors and Radiation (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Sunlight, Ultraviolet Radiation, and the Skin (Office of Medical Applications of Research)
• Symbols in Radiation Protection (Environmental Protection Agency)
• TENORM-Technologically Enhanced, Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Terms of Radiation (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Types of Radiation (Environmental Protection Agency)
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Understanding Radiation (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Understanding Radiation: Exposure Pathways (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Understanding Radiation: Health Effects (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• VA Programs for Veterans Exposed to Radiation (Dept. of Veterans Affairs)
• We Want You to Know about Television Radiation (Center for Devices and Radiological Health)
• What Are the Sources of Radiation? (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
• What is Radiation? (Environmental Protection Agency)
• What to Do If There Is a Nuclear or Radiological Attack (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• What We Know about Radiation (Office of the Director)
• What You Might Feel in a Disaster (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• X-Ray Radiation (Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction)