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Abstract
The discovery that atomic chain reaction will produce substantial quantities of heat together with highly radioactive by-products gives rise to anticipation of an entirely new technology and of many newlines of industrial, medical, and agricultural endeavor. In due course widespread use will be made of the potentialities of this new source of energy.At the same time the likelihood of personal and property injuries resulting from overexposure to radiation brings about a new hazard against which protection must be afforded so far as it is possible to do so. The health and safety codes that are now being formulated at national, state and local levels all bear witness to the hazards of the business and the desire of public authorities to minimize them so far as possible.
Recommended Citation
E. Blythe Stason,
Tort Liability for Radiation Injuries,
12 Vanderbilt Law Review
93
(1958)
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