Tony Webb

Dr Tony Webb, MSc, PhD an active campaigner on the health effects of ionising radiation since the late 1970s. With two colleagues in 1978 I founded the UK based Radiation and Health Information Service that highlighted the evidence showing the risk estimates from radiation exposure, on which the national and international occupational and public exposure limits were based.

Recent articles by Tony Webb

Nuclear kills kids

Nuclear kills kids

One moment from my work in the USA in the early 1980s stands out in my memory. I'd driven from Chicago to Cleveland at the invitation of the Health and Safety Officer of the US Boilermakers Union to speak to the members meeting held on the night ahead of the recruitment of members for work on the annual 'clean-up' of the local Nuclear Power plant.

Nuclear industry workers face significant, inevitable and unavoidable radiation health risks

Nuclear industry workers face significant, inevitable and unavoidable radiation health risks

Nuclear industry workers face significant, inevitable and largely unavoidable radiation health risks which have so far not been addressed in the debate about Australia possibly buying into this industry.

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