Living with Radiation - The Role of the International Atomic Energy Agency in the History of Radiation Protection

HRP-IAEA

How best to protect us from ionizing radiation?
Despite the establishment of technical radiation standards, the harmful effects of radiation exposure continue to be a major issue in the nuclear world. Obviously, radiation protection is not a strictly techno-scientific issue.
 
Living with Radiation turns our attention to nuclear diplomacy as a means for understanding how our scientific knowledge about radiation protection has been shaped by diplomatic, social, economic, and political concerns. Our research marks a diplomatic turn in history of science.

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• design and implement radiation protection policies,
• deal with radioactive materials both in nuclear industries and in the medical sector,
• encounter radiation in their daily lives—as most of us do.

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Maria Rentetzi, Professor at the Technical University Berlin, is an internationally acknowledged historian of science and technology who runs a 2 million ERC consolidator grant (2019-2024) on the history of radiation protection and nuclear diplomacy. Her research cuts across traditional disciplinary divides, bringing humanities closer to the physical sciences. Professor Rentetzi is currently building her ERC team, a highly international group of male and female scholars who will support her research project.

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