Information in Health Physics Specialties and Related Fields

Health Physics is a diverse discipline, covering many areas and is related to several other disciplines. Note: Conferences and mailing lists are now listed separately.

• Accelerators and X-rays
• Dosimetry
• Emergency Management
• Environmental Radioactivity
• Fusion Energy
• Medical Physics
• Military
• Non-Ionizing Radiation
• Nuclear Power and Nuclear Engineering
• Nuclear Instrumentation and Electronics
• Nuclear Medicine
• Nuclear Weapons
• Radiology
• Radiation Biology
• Radio-chemistry, Nuclear Physics, X-ray diffraction and Radio-dating
• Radiopharmacology
• Radioactive Waste
• Risk
• Shielding
• Space Radiation Exposure
• Training

Power Reactors and Nuclear Engineering Information

• General Nuclear Power information
• Nuclear Engineering Virtual Library (Berkeley)
• American Nuclear Society
• A really good all-around Nuclear Based Homepage : Todd's Atomic Homepage
• NRC Homepage
• US Commercial Reactors info
• Nuclear Reactors (NRC)
• Nuclear Energy Agency (France)
• British Nuclear Industry Forum
• Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
• International Energy Outlook - Nuclear, 1995 (Energy Information Administration, DOE)
• The Uranium Institute (UK)
• Uranium Information Centre (Australia)
• Wyoming Mining Association (WMA) Uranium Homepage
• Environmentalists for Nuclear Power
• The Virtual Nuclear Tourist!!!
• The Bureau of Atomic Tourism
• A virtual nuclear power plant tour
• Atomic Energy Insights

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Radioactive Waste

• The National Low-Level Waste Management Program
• Center for Nuclear and Toxic Waste (Berkeley)
• Yucca Mountain Project - DOE
• Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management - DOE
• CalRad Forum (Southwestern Compact users group)
• 1993 State-by-State Assessment of Low-Level Radioactive Wastes
• 1994 State-by-State Assessment of Low-Level Radioactive Wastes
• WIPP Facts Sheet
• Radioactive Waste (NRC)
• Appalachian Compact Users of Radioactive Isotopes
• EPA's Yucca Mountain Web Site
• Mixed Waste Site (EPA)
• Plutonium Recovery from Spent Fuel
• Applied Radiation Measurements Department - ARMD (ORNL)
• Sweden's Radioactive Waste Program
• Radiation and waste safety: Strengthening national capabilities
• Radioactive waste disposal: Global experience and challenges
• Herne Data Sys Rad Waste links
• Also see the Commercial Directory

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Nuclear Weapons

• Nuclear Weapons and other related information - with photos (University of Melbourne)
• All-around Nuclear Based Homepage : Todd's Atomic Homepage
• Atomic Bomb related photos- Hiroshima, Japan - 1945
• Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing by the United States of America
• United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 through September 1992 (DOE/NV)
• Radiological Effluents Released From U.S. Continental Tests 1961 through 1992 (DOE/NV-317)
• Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing by the former U.S.S.R. in Semipalatinsk, Kazakstan
• Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Deployment in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
• Nuclear missile silo tour

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Accelerator and X-ray Information

• CERN
• Synchrotron Radiation & Neutron Sources
• Photon Interaction Coefficients of the Elements Generated by PHOTCOEF©
• Mucal on the web, a program to calculate x-ray absorption coefficients
• X ray Server
• Super Collider (SSC)
• Tri-University Meson Facility (Canada)
• Fermi Accelerator WWW Server
• ELETTRA
• Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation
• Accelerator terms
• World-Wide Web Virtual Library of Accelerator Physics (SLAC)
• IARPE or Accelerator Radiation Protection, which is the official publication of the Accelerator Section of the Health Physics Society.

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Fusion Information

• Magnetic Fusion Energy Data Base (UofTex)
• Inertial Confinement Fusion Research (LLNL)
• Office of Fusion Energy (DOE)
• Fusion WWW Server (MIT )
• Fusion Research (Princeton)
• General Atomic's Fusion HomePage

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Environmental Information

• Radiation & the environment: Assessing effects on plants and animals
• Cafe Thorium (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
• Environmental Health (NIH)
• Office of Environmental Management (DOE)
• Office of Health and Environmental Research (DOE)
• National Ocean and Atmosphere Service (NOAA)
• Radioecology (Sweden)
• International Sakharov Institute of Radioecology (Belerus)
• Radiation Environments Program (REP - ORNL)
• Climate and Radiation (NASA)
• Health Physics Measurements Group (LANL)
• DOE Laboratory Accreditation Program (INEL)
• Radioactivity in Nature
• Learn About The Chemicals In Your Environment
• Radon Information
• The Uranium Institute (UK)
• Uranium Information Centre (Australia)
• Wyoming Mining Association (WMA) Uranium Homepage

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Shielding

• NIST Physics Lab
• Shielding (RSIC - ORNL)
• Shielding Design Group (SDG - ORNL)
• EGS Homepage - Photon/Electron transport code (LBL)
• Photon Interaction Coefficients of the Elements Generated by PHOTCOEF©
• Mucal on the web, a program to calculate x-ray absorption coefficients
• Radiation shielding company

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Dosimetry

• Air Force dosimetry home page
• Health Physics Measurements Group (LANL)
• DOE Laboratory Accreditation Program (INEL)
• FAQs for DOELAP
• SLAC dosimetry program
• NRC Occupational Radiation Exposure Program
• NIST Physics Lab
• NIST Ionizing radiation lab
• Dosimetry and radiology
• Dosimetry (ORNL)
• Radiation Internal Dose Information Center (ORAU)
• DOE draft documents for bioassay

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Space Radiation Information

• Radiation Physics Group (NASA/GSFC)
• Space lab (Caltech)
• CRRES (SWRI)
• Humans in Space (NASA)
• Space Settlement (NASA)
• Radiation Effects Database - Electronics (JPL/NASA)
• Radiation Effects and Analysis Home Page - Electronics (NASA)
• Space Environment Effects Branch (NASA)
• Radiation Hazards to Crews of Interplanetary Missions: Biological Issues and Research Strategies
• Radiation Belts
• Space Radiation (Software)
• Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation in Manned Space Activities

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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Physics

• Internet resource listing in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Physics (RSNA)
• List of Radiology WWW sites (UNC)
• Good Radiology Site
• List of Radiology Internet sites By state and country
• Another List of Radiology WWW sites (Harvard)
• Physical aspects of digital radiography
• Extensive listing of Nuclear Medicine resources
• Nuclear Medicine Browsers for the Internet (Netherlands)
• Nuclear Medicine Research Council
• Radiation Internal Dose Information Center (ORAU)
• Diagnostic Modality Images and Radiology site Professional Web site for Radiation Oncology Professional
• Radiology at University of Washington
• Radiology at Harvard
• Radiology at Penn State
• X ray Server
• Radiology (Canada)
• Ultra-Sound WWW Sites
• Imaging (Precision Imagining Co)
• Societies and Organizations with Interests in Radiology (PSU)
• Radiologic Sciences (IUPUI)
• Photon Interaction Coefficients of the Elements Generated by PHOTCOEF©
• Mucal on the web, a program to calculate x-ray absorption coefficients
• Internet resource listing in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Physics (RSNA)
• Extensive listing of Medical Physics Resources
• Internet Medical resources
• MR/MRI internet resources
• MRI Indications for the Referring Physician, with a good reference for MRI
• MRI Tutor
• BNCT (MIT)
• Institute for Clinical PET (ICP)
• NRC Occupational Radiation Exposure
• Radio-iodine in cats (LANL)
• Also see the Source Info page

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Radiation Biology

• Radiation Biology Archive
• Other Radiobiology Archives
• Extensive Radiation Biology listing (UBC)
• Radbio Lab (Gray Laboratory)
• Office of Health and Environmental Research (DOE)
• Notre Dame Radiation Research Lab (DOE)
• Eye Radiation & Environmental Research Lab
• Other Radiation Effects Links

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Non-Ionizing Radiation

• Nonionizing Radiation Information from New Jersey's Radiation Protection Program
• A good non-ionizing radiation web site
• Electromagnetic Energy Association (EEA)
• EEA Fact Sheets
• EMF, ELF, & RF RADIATION: POLITICS, SCIENCE, and EDUCATION (try the Table of Contents for more good links)
• USACHPPM - Laser and Optical Radiation Hazards Program (DOD)
• Laser Institute of America (LIA)
• LaserNet (Rockwell Laser Indust.)
• Laser Focus World Home Page
• Information on Specific Radiation Sources (Non-ionizing)
• EMF-Link (EMF Infonet)
• ELF/EMF Papers (David Hafemeister - Cal Poly)
• RadEFX(SM) Non-Ionizing Radiation Health Effects Forum
• Health Effects from Increased Exposure to Ultraviolet-B (UV-B)
• UV index and other information (NOAA and EPA)
• Non-Ionizing Radiation Safety at LLNL
• Wave Guide
• FCC RF Radiation Guidelines
• Also see the Source Info page

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Training and Education

• Center for Excellence in Education
• Radiology Training on the Internet
• Educational Resources and Training (DOE, Radsafe, etc.)
• Radiation Training

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Military

• Air Force
• Air Force Personnel Radiation Dosimetry Program
• DOD HP
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - HTRW CX
• History Of Nuclear Power In The Navy/Nuclear Trained Officer

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Nuclear Instrumentation and Electronics

• Health Physics Measurements Group (LANL)
• DOE Laboratory Accreditation Program (INEL)
• DOE Health Physics Instrumentation Committee - HPIC (LLNL)
• Applied Radiation Measurements Department - ARMD (ORNL)
• Instrumentation and Control (ORNL)
• IEEE Home Page
• ASEE Instrumentation Division
• NIST Physics Lab
• NIST Ionizing radiation lab
• Radiation Effects Database (JPL/NASA)
• Radiation Effects and Analysis Home Page (NASA)
• Also see the Commercial Directory

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Radio-chemistry, Nuclear Chemistry, Nuclear Physics, X-ray diffraction, Radio-dating And Radiopharmacology

• ACS nuclear chemistry branch
• Radioactivity & Radiochemistry Journal
• Cafe Thorium (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
• Environmental & Radiation Chemistry Web links
• CST-8's Radioanalytical Chemistry Team (LANL)
• Franklin McLean Memorial Research Institute (UofChicago)
• Nuclear and Radio Chemistry (Elsevier Science)
• Nuclear Physics: Past, Present and Future
• Particle Physics (Check out the The Particle Adventure)
• X ray Diff at NCSU
• X ray Diff at UCSD
• Protein crystallographers
• Extensive listing of General Chemistry on the Internet
• Earth Age dating (USGS)
• A Carbon 14 Lab (New Zealand)
• Carbon 14 Homepage (Arizona)
• AMS and C-14 (LLNL)
• Univ of NM's Radiopharmacology Tutorial
• The Nuclear Pharmacy
• Pharmacology (UCLA)
• Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research (Harvard)

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Risk

• EPA Office of Radiation & Indoor Air Radiation Protection Division Publications (several on risk)
• EPA's Estimating Radiogenic Cancer Risks (PDF format)
• Principles for Evaluating Epidemiologic Data in Regulatory Risk Assessment
• RiskWorld (news and articles on risk)
• Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management
• Risk Research (LBL)
• Argonne National Laboratory's Risk Assessment and Safety Evaluation (RASE) Group
• Issue of perceived risk (Discovery Channel)
• Windows compatible SURVRAD - lifetime incidence and mortality risks of radiation-induced cancer
• Radioepidemiologic tables for lifetime risks and probabilities of causation: PC tables at http:/www.concentric.net/~viking/pc1.shtml (Males) and http:/www.concentric.net/~viking/pc2.shtml (Females).

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Emergency Management

• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• FEMA Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP)
• REACTS (ORNL)

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