Latest issue (complete) No 1, March 2010 (1-114)

Forthcoming articles
An advance list of articles that have been accepted for publication.

Featured articles
These high-interest recent articles are all free to read.

NEW: Review of radiation accidents
The September 2009 issue includes a very interesting review article by Jean-Claude Nénot on Radiation accidents over the last 60 years, which is FREE to read. The review chronicles accidental overexposures of persons from military, industrial and medical radiation accidents since the 2nd World War.

L H Gray Special Issue
The June 2009 issue includes a supplement (No 2A) containing a selection of the best papers from the 21st L H Gray Conference on the Radiobiology/Radiation Protection Interface. The current knowledge of radiation effects is reviewed and implications for its application in healthcare considered. The conference gathered leading experts in radiobiology, radiation epidemiology, radiation effect modelling, and the application of radiation in medicine to provide an overview of the subject.

The June 2008 issue includes a short review article by Tony Wrixon on the new ICRP recommendations. The article presents a summary of the recently published (2007) recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, and is the final instalment in the series of papers about the progress of the recommendations that have appeared in this journal. This article is FREE to read: download the full-text here.

The December 2007 issue includes a supplement (No 4B) containing the MRC report of the work of Michael Court-Brown and Richard Doll on leukaemia after radiotherapy for ankylosing spondylitis. This seminal study (rated by Doll as the second most important piece of work he ever did) is now published in a scientific journal for the first time, 50 years after it first appeared in 1957. This issue is FREE to read until the end of 2008.

The September 2007 issue marks the 50th anniversary of the Windscale fire with an Editorial by Richard Wakeford, and a classic paper "District Surveys following the Windscale Incident, October 1957" by the late John Dunster et al describing the extensive environmental monitoring programme that took place during and after the accident. Both articles are FREE to read.

The September 2007 issue also includes a supplement (No 3A) containing a selection of the best papers from the UKAEA conference, held in Nairn, Scotland in August 2005, on Managing Historic Hot Particle Liabilities in the Marine Environment around Dounreay. The first paper in the issue, "Dounreay hot particles: the story so far" by Frank Dennis et al, is a Featured article and is FREE to read.

John Harrison and colleagues review the scientific evidence for the biological behaviour of Polonium-210 in the March 2007 issue of the journal. "Polonium-210 as a poison" is accompanied by an Editorial from John Stather placing this topical article in the context of the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.

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