Effects OF Radiation

This book features papers presented at a workshop discussing current knowledge about the biological effects of low level exposures (BELLE).

Research on radiation tolerant electronics has increased rapidly over the last few years, resulting in many interesting approaches to model radiation effects and design radiation hardened integrated circuits and embedded systems. This research is strongly driven by the growing need for radiation hardened electronics for space applications, high-energy physics experiments such as those on the large hadron collider at CERN, and many terrestrial nuclear applications, including nuclear energy and safety management. With the progressive scaling of integrated circuit technologies and the growing complexity of electronic systems, their ionizing radiation susceptibility has raised many exciting challenges, which are expected to drive research in the coming decade.

Barrie Trower campaigns on the issue of microwaves. The damaging nature of microwaves was known about decades before mobile microwave technology was introduced. Only now are governments beginning to accept this. The list of health problems that can arise due to exposure of microwaves is vast. Not only are domestic products dangerous to health, Trower describes microwaves as "the new atomic bomb". A much more effective weapon than an atomic bomb because it is almost impossible to trace them back to their source.