Hot metal / by Bea Hamer ; [photograph[s] by Al Gutierrez and ; Jerry Littman ; illustrations ; by Phillip Paea ;, Peter Woods].
Material type: TextSeries: ApplicationsPublisher: Wellington, N.Z. : Learning Media, Ministry of Education, 1992Description: 17 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0478055870
- 9780478055870
- Readers -- Radioactive pollution -- United States
- Readers -- Radioactivity
- Readers -- Radioactive waste disposal
- Radioactive pollution -- Mexico -- Juvenile literature
- Radioactive pollution -- United States -- Juvenile literature
- Radioactivity -- Juvenile literature
- Radioactive waste disposal -- Juvenile literature
- Radioactive waste disposal
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"Fictionalised re-creation of a real incident"--Cover verso.
One of a series designed to promote reading across the curriculum.
Teachers' guide to the series published under the title: Applications : teachers' guide : reading and learning across the curriculum.
"Item number 92/216"--Cover verso.
For 13-17 year olds -- Education Services, Wellington, N.Z.
Includes bibliographical references.
Traces the events leading up to a radiation emergency in the United States when radioactive material from an X-Ray unit was mistakenly sold for scrap metal. Follows the clean up operation and includes technical information on radioactivity and its effect on humans. Suggested level: secondary.
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