“Black Film” and the Bomb

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Miklitsch
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
National Security ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Black Film ◽  
Atomic Espionage

In the prototypical ‘50s nuclear noir, the protagonist is an elite scientist—a nuclear physicist, to be precise—who’s either overtly opposed to or intimately aligned with the nation state and its institutional agencies. Although the FBI, as in the anticommunist noir, is the dominant investigative figure in these espionage films, it’s dramatically subordinated to other, more pressing issues and agencies such as treason, homosexuality, and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) (in The Thief), Native Americans, national security, and the nuclear family (in The Atomic City), and bombshells, bikinis, and “B” movies (in Shack Out on 101). While City of Fear is not an atomic espionage film—call it a nuclear-epidemiological noir--the film’s representation of the LAPD and metropolitan Los Angeles as well as the rhetoric of disease and contamination, contagion and radioactivity, renders it a quintessential late ‘50s “B” noir.

Uranium Mining and the AEC: The Birth Pangs of a New Industry

1962 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-333
Author(s):  
Herbert H. Lang
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Uranium Mining ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
New Industry

The interrelationship of national security, the Atomic Energy Commission, government financial support, and the birth pangs of a new and growing industry with unusual competitive characteristics are examined in this article.

The Practice of Nuclear MedicineThe Practice of Nuclear Medicine. By BlahdWilliam H., M.D., Chief, Radioisotope Service, Veterans Administration Center, Los Angeles, California; Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine and Medical Physics Physician, Radiological Safety Division, University of California at Los Angeles, BauerFranz K., M.D., Chief, Outpatient Services, Los Angeles County Hospital; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Co-ordinator of Radioisotope Research, University of Southern California School of Medicine; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, College of Medical Evangelists School of Medicine ; Attending Specialist—Radioisotope Service, Veterans Administration Center, Los Angeles, Calif., and CassenBenedict, Ph.D., Chief, Medical Physics Section, Atomic Energy Project and Clinical Professor of Biophysics, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine ; Consultant in Radioisotopes—Radioisotope Service, Veterans Administration Center, Los Angeles, Calif. Introduction by AebersoldPaul, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Isotopes and Radiation, Division of Civilian Application, United States Atomic Energy Commission. Foreword by RossJoseph F., M.D., Associate Dean, Professor of Medicine and Radiology, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles. A volume of 408 pages, with 113 figures. Published by Charles C Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Ill., 1958. Price $12.50.

Radiology ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-279
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Research University ◽  
Medical Physics ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Veterans Administration ◽  
Outpatient Services ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Associate Clinical Professor

Radiological safety and assessment of the performance of X-ray systems in veterinary facilities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Economides ◽  
C.J. Hourdakis ◽  
C. Pafilis ◽  
G. Simantirakis ◽  
P. Tritakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Radiation Protection ◽  
Atomic Energy Commission ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Regulatory Control ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Public ◽  
Radiological Safety ◽  
High Level

This paper concerns an analysis regarding the performance of X-ray equipment as well as the radiological safety in veterinary facilities. Data were collected from 380 X-ray veterinary facilities countrywide during the on-site regulatory inspections carried out by the Greek Atomic Energy Commission. The analysis of the results shows that the majority of the veterinary radiographic systems perform within the acceptable limits; moreover, the design and shielding of X-ray rooms as well as the applied procedures ensure a high level of radiological safety for the practitioners, operators and the members of the public. An issue that requires specific attention in the optimization process for the proper implementation of veterinary radiology practices in terms of radiological safety is the continuous training of the personnel. The above findings and the regulatory experience gained were valuable decision-making elements regarding the type of the regulatory control of veterinary radiology practices in the new radiation protection framework.

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