Home Health Physics

Home Health Physics provides the reader with a simple, common sense approach to protecting your home, your family and your pets from radioactive contamination. It includes step by step procedures for isolating your environment during nuclear emergencies and presents a comprehensive look at the different types of radiation, how they impact the human body and how to protect yourself from each type. This book presents information in descriptive and primer style formats for easy learning and reference. It also includes terms, definitions and conversion tables to help interpret what you read in the news, as well as a radiation workbook for compiling your own data.