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ALTHOUGH, as Allsopp1 has recently indicated, radiation chemistry is in reality an old subject, it has received its major impetus during the Second World War. Problems of the production of atomic energy and atomic power require information on the effects of high-energy radiation on structural mater- Tals, coolants, moderators and chemicals and containers used in separation processes, as well as on the chemistry of nuclear recoils produced in the processes of radioactive decay or in processes for the separation of radioactive nuclides. Technological aspects of these problems have been handled primarily in the National Laboratories in the United States (Argonne, Oak Ridge and Brookhaven)and at the Chalk River Atomic Energy Establishment, Canada, and also at Harwell, England.
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Radiation Chemistry at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Nature 164, 653 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164653a0
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