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39th Annual Radiological Protection Summer School 2026
27 - 31 July 2026
University of Greenwich, UK

Prof Wade Allison MA Dphil
Emeritus Professor of Physics and Fellow at Keble College, University of Oxford
Speaker

Profile

Wade Allison is an experimental and theoretical physicist, the author of some 245 scientific publications and four books. In 40 years at Oxford he taught and lectured students in most areas from Mathematics to Medical Physics. His accessible books, “Radiation and Reason” (2009) “and “Nuclear is for Life” (2015), compare nuclear radiation when used for human health in a clinic with its risks when used in the environment. He has lectured around the world including several visits to Fukushima. In the UK he is Honorary Secretary of the Supporters Of Nuclear Energy.

Agenda Sessions

  • The Fear of Ionising Radiation and the International Recommendations of 1934

    16:15