"Doctoral Dissertation Research: Rocks and Reactors: The Origins of Radiation Exposure Disparity, 1941 to 1979"

博士论文研究：岩石和反应堆：辐射暴露差异的起源，1941- 1979本研究调查了不同的污染标准如何在核燃料链的不同组织设置和阶段成为可接受的规范。 它比较了原子能和平研究反应堆实验室和美国西南部铀矿的辐射安全。档案和二手文献被用来调查如何在国际上建立辐射安全的学术研究反应堆，但没有扩展到那些最直接受辐射污染？土著生计社区位于世界各地核燃料链活动（核材料的开采、碾磨、生产、使用和储存）的很大一部分所在地。它促进了在研究反应堆和采矿场的不同文化之间的科学知识和实践的包容，排斥和交流。它演示了如何对同一技术产品进行差异化监管，并最终通过将核反应堆的监管置于分析的中心，填补了核技术历史上的一个重要空白。这项研究解释了辐射标准制定的复杂历史，以便更广泛的公众能够参与并促进关于环境正义和核历史的讨论和决定。 此外，它还开发了新的教学工具，并通过关于辐射照射的讲习班传播和积累知识，土著群体、研究科学家和历史学家都积极参加了这些讲习班。

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Rocks and Reactors: The Origins of Radiation Exposure Disparity, 1941-1979This research investigates how different standards for contamination became acceptable norms at different organizational settings and stages in the nuclear fuel chain. It compares radiation safety as practiced at Atoms for Peace research reactor laboratories and at southwestern United States uranium mines. Archival and secondary literature is used to investigate how radiation safety was instituted internationally at academic research reactors, but not extended to those most directly affected by radiation pollution?indigenous subsistence communities located where a high proportion of the nuclear fuel chain activities (mining, milling, production, use, and storage of nuclear materials) occur worldwide. It advances scholarship on the inclusion, exclusion, and exchange of scientific knowledge and practice between diverse cultures at research reactors and mining sites. It demonstrates how the differential regulation of the same technological product can occur, and finally, it fills an important gap in the history of nuclear technologies, by placing the regulation of nuclear reactors at the center of analysis. This research explains the complex history of radiation standard setting so that a broader public can participate and contribute to discussions and decisions on environmental justice and nuclear history. In addition, it develops new teaching tools, and disseminates and builds knowledge through workshops on radiation exposure in which indigenous groups, research scientists and historians are active participants.