Radiation from nuclear. Medical search. Frequent questions

The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that shook Japan early March 11 caused cooling system malfunctions at two nuclear reactors, one at the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi power plant near Tokyo and the Tohoku Electric Power Co. facility in Onagawa. (livescience.com)
Occupied by Russian troops since March 4, 2022, the report looks at how this has "forced six nuclear reactors and pools of spent nuclear fuel onto the front lines of the biggest land war in Europe since World War II. (beyondnuclear.org)
What would happen if any of the plant's six Soviet-built VVER-1000 nuclear reactors were struck by artillery? (beyondnuclear.org)
In a statement Sunday, they said the two nuclear reactors in Taishan are both operational, adding that Unit 2 had recently completed an "overhaul" and "successfully connected to the grid on June 10, 2021. (cnn.com)
Ionizing radiation is energy that is carried by several types of particles and rays given off by radioactive material, x ray machines, and fuel elements in nuclear reactors. (cdc.gov)

Bellona.org has published a new report - The Radiation Risks of Seizing the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant - examining the dangers that have arisen since the plant was seized by Russia early in that country's invasion of Ukraine. (beyondnuclear.org)

Five years after the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi, the scientific community is ready to assess what the real health consequences have been and put them into perspective with other risks in our lives, Gerry Thomas says. (world-nuclear-news.org)
You can't reduce risk to nothing, it's just impossible to do that," said Thomas, calling for society to balance the risk of a nuclear accident against the risks of other forms of generation, particularly fossil fuels that damage health and the environment. (world-nuclear-news.org)
It is considering whether to revise the standards that limit the radiation releases and doses to the public from the normal operations of nuclear power plants and other uranium fuel cycle facilities because the scientific understanding of radiation risks has advanced since 1977, it said. (powermag.com)
The data collected using the UAV systems developed by the IAEA and validated by Fukushima Prefecture can be used to assess potential radiation risks and help establish appropriate remediation, decontamination and nuclear waste management plans and strategies in Japan, the IAEA said. (world-nuclear-news.org)
The results showed that real-world risks from radiation were about the same as real-world risks from commonly used non-nuclear technologies. (chicagoboyz.net)
Using data from the U.S. Radiologic Technologists (USRT) Study (1994-1998), we prospectively examined risks of cancer and circulatory disease (incidence through 2005 and mortality through 2008) associated with reported performance of nuclear medicine and brachytherapy procedures. (bmj.com)
Estimation of organ-specific occupational radiation doses for individual technologists using these data (in progress) will be used in comprehensive retrospective and prospective investigations of radiogenic cancer and other serious disease risks. (bmj.com)
We thank Dr Wakeford for his interest in our paper and agree that our recent report on solid cancer mortality among 101 363 US nuclear workers provides new and relevant information on risks from protracted low-dose ionizing radiation.1 With this in mind, we chose to publish risk estimates that best inform contemporary radiation exposures. (cdc.gov)

A nuclear power plant accident could leak harmful radiation into the atmosphere. (howstuffworks.com)
Even if fuel rods melt and the pressure inside the reactor builds up, radiation would not leak as long as the reactor container functions well," Tomoko Murakami, leader of the nuclear energy group at Japan's Institute of Energy Economics, told Reuters. (livescience.com)
The weak RF protocols and firmware could allow an attacker to inject fake radiation readings, so that if there were a radiation accident or leak, it couldn't be detected, for example. (darkreading.com)
An attacker could inject false readings into a nuclear power plant's radiation monitoring device simulating a massive radiation leak … How is the operator going to react? (darkreading.com)
China said Tuesday that radiation levels around the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant are normal, following CNN's exclusive report the United States government was assessing a reported leak at the facility. (cnn.com)
Before Fukushima and Chernobyl, the worst-ever nuclear disaster was a massive leak from a plant in the eastern Urals. (rt.com)

In the event of a nuclear attack or accident, personal electronics could be repurposed as radiation detectors. (sciencenews.org)
In these facilities, you'll work with a wide range of radioactive sources and radiation detectors. (surrey.ac.uk)
An IAEA-developed instrumentation and methodology for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with radiation detectors, cameras and GPS devices has been tested and validated under real conditions in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. (world-nuclear-news.org)
Since all radiation detectors are made from some form of matter it is useful to first of all know how radiation interacts so that we can exploit the effects in the design of such detectors in subsequent chapters of this wikibook. (wikibooks.org)

On Monday, CNN reported that the French company which helps operate the nuclear plant in southern Guangdong province had warned Washington of an "imminent radiological threat. (cnn.com)
However, Zhao declined to answer follow-up questions regarding Framatome's language in its warning to US officials, specifically, its use of the term "imminent radiological threat," and the suggestion that Chinese authorities had raised acceptable limits of radiation for the plant and its surrounding area. (cnn.com)
The increase in the level of radioactivity in the primary circuit is completely different from a radiological leakage accident," as the "physical barriers are safe," it said, adding the level "is still within the range of allowable stable operation," and the "operational safety of the nuclear power plant is guaranteed. (cnn.com)
France's Institute for Radiological Protection & Nuclear Safety (IRSN) estimated that maximum external doses to people living around the plant were unlikely to exceed 30 mSv/yr in the first year. (world-nuclear.org)
Based on this experience, the agency said it is ready to assist interested IAEA Member Atates to develop and implement this technology for radiological mapping following a nuclear or radiological emergency. (world-nuclear-news.org)
NEA Expert Group on Non‑radiological Public Health Aspects of Radiation Emergency Planning and Response (EGNR) kick‑off meeting on 5 November 2019. (oecd-nea.org)
Health issues due to a major nuclear accident always includes impairments attributable to both ionising radiation and non-radiological effects. (oecd-nea.org)
The recently‑established NEA Expert Group on Non‑radiological Public Health Aspects of Radiation Emergency Planning and Response (EGNR) aims to address these psycho‑socio and societal impacts, develop approaches for their mitigation, and deliver guidance to assist emergency‑management decision makers for their implementation. (oecd-nea.org)
The group, which held its kick‑off meeting on 5 November 2019, will provide input to the development of a policy framework that adopts existing WHO guidelines on mental health and psychological support in emergencies to nuclear and radiological emergencies. (oecd-nea.org)
It will also propose practical solutions/tools for support of the decision making process while planning for and responding to nuclear and radiological emergencies. (oecd-nea.org)
Already in the early 1980ies the project "Radiation Dose to Patients from Radiopharmaceuticals" begun and has since then developed and expanded with the support from the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority (SSM) and the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). (lu.se)

Delayed nuclear radiation is a form of nuclear decay. (wikipedia.org)
A base level of heat from nuclear decay continues to flow off the rods, however, and that's the problem in the Fukushima and Onagawa plants. (livescience.com)
N-16 has a half-life of only 7 seconds but produces high-energy gamma radiation during decay. (world-nuclear.org)
It also has a fast luminescence decay time that is essential for radiation detection because it affects how quickly a detector can work, Chen said. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
Nuclear radiation, or radioactive decay, was first discovered in 1896 by the French scientist Henri Becquerel while working on phosphorescent materials. (mfa.org)
Auger electrons emitted in nuclear decay offer a unique tool to kill cancer cells at the scale of a DNA molecule. (epj-conferences.org)
In this paper we review the physical processes of Auger emission in nuclear decay and present a new model being developed to evaluate the energy spectrum of Auger electrons, and hence overcome the limitations of existing computations. (epj-conferences.org)

Many of these areas actually have higher radiation levels than many parts of the evacuation zones around Chernobyl and Fukushima. (world-nuclear.org)
In fact, most areas of the Chernobyl and Fukushima evacuation zones have radiation levels no higher than natural background levels. (world-nuclear.org)
Chernobyl and Fukushima are the two names that are most likely to come to mind when one thinks about nuclear disaster, and rightfully so. (rt.com)

A ceramic insulator found in many devices, such as cell phones and fitness trackers, gives off a glow under high heat that reveals its past nuclear radiation exposure , researchers report in the February Radiation Measurements . (sciencenews.org)
A new technology using drones, developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for use by the authorities of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, allows for the remote monitoring of radiation measurements in areas where contamination is too high for people to enter. (world-nuclear-news.org)
It has provided, both a complete UAV-based instrumentation system for radiation measurements as well as post-measurement analysis and interpretation methodology. (world-nuclear-news.org)
During year 2017 and 2018 researchers from Lund University (Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö, and Nuclear Physics, Lund) performed extensive measurements of the radiation environment around ESS prior to start of operation. (lu.se)
The aim of the measurements was to determine today's environmental radiation levels, to be able to demonstrate that future radioactive releases from ESS do not exceed the levels permitted by the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (ESS). (lu.se)
Early nuclear workers' exposure measurements are subject to various uncertainties and biases, which are difficult to quantify and limit causal inference. (cdc.gov)

They know it is impossible for them not to have been exposed to lethal doses of radiation. (dailymail.co.uk)
Speaking on the Today program on the fifth anniversary of the accident, Thomas, who is head of the Chernobyl Tissue Bank at Imperial College London, said, "It's a common misconception that nuclear accidents from power stations cause high doses of radiation to individuals but in actual fact they are a lot lower than people think. (world-nuclear-news.org)
Equally, flying exposes you to higher doses of radiation as the atmosphere is considerably thinner at 12,000 metres above the sea. (world-nuclear.org)
Cancer patients often receive extremely high radiation doses - in some cases 40-60 Sievert over a period of a few weeks - to treat their disease. (world-nuclear.org)
A study evaluating nuclear medicine work history practices and associated doses in a sample of U.S. technologists who are more recently trained and primarily certified in nuclear medicine technology is currently underway. (bmj.com)

Whilst many believe that all it takes is a single exposure to radiation for cancer to develop, this is not true. (world-nuclear.org)
Exposure to radiation is the principal public concern in the event of a nuclear accident. (world-nuclear.org)
While it is well known that exposure to radiation can result in cataract formation, questions still remain about the presence of a dose threshold in radiation cataractogenesis. (duke.edu)

Whether this is in the air or settled on the ground, it may expose people to ionizing radiation, and the effect of this is measured in Sieverts, or more typically milliSieverts (mSv). (world-nuclear.org)
Exposure to ionizing radiation can also be by direct radiation from the plants and fuels themselves, though not released to the environment. (world-nuclear.org)
It is for this reason that it is called ionizing radiation . (wikibooks.org)
This public health statement tells you about ionizing radiation and the effects of exposure. (cdc.gov)
It does not tell you about non-ionizing radiation, such as microwaves, ultrasound, or ultraviolet radiation. (cdc.gov)
Exposure to ionizing radiation can come from many sources. (cdc.gov)
You can learn when and where you may be exposed to sources of ionizing radiation in Section 1.3 of this chapter. (cdc.gov)
However, it's unknown how many of the 1,467 current or former NPL sites have been evaluated for the presence of ionizing radiation sources. (cdc.gov)
As more sites are evaluated, the sites with ionizing radiation may increase. (cdc.gov)
This information is important because exposure to ionizing radiation may harm you and because these sites may be sources of exposure. (cdc.gov)
Even in the event that you are exposed, it does not necessarily mean you will be harmed or suffer long-term health effects from exposure to ionizing radiation. (cdc.gov)
If you are exposed to ionizing radiation, many factors determine whether you'll be harmed. (cdc.gov)
To explain what ionizing radiation is, we will start with a discussion of atoms, how they come to be radioactive, and how they give off ionizing radiation. (cdc.gov)
Of the different types and sources of ionizing radiation, this profile will discuss the three main types: alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. (cdc.gov)
Before defining ionizing radiation, it is useful to first describe an atom. (cdc.gov)
What Ionizing Radiation Is. (cdc.gov)
We cannot sense ionizing radiation, so we must use special instruments to learn whether we are being exposed to it and to measure the level of radiation exposure. (cdc.gov)
Our findings within this contemporary group clearly indicate that workers exposed to protracted low-dose ionizing radiation exposure are at risk of solid cancer and some subtypes. (cdc.gov)

In 2010, he became principal investigator on a $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, with the goal of looking for a new type of radiation detector that could help reduce the threat of nuclear materials being brought into the U.S. for terrorism. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
Radiation Detect]The detector is used to measure X, γ and β rays radiation, it is optimal for measuring small changes in radiation levels, and has high sensitivity for most commonly used nuclides. (dhgate.com)

RADIATION READOUT Quickly examining personal electronics for radiation exposure could help triage medical treatment of radiation sickness after a nuclear disaster. (sciencenews.org)
Quickly estimating people's risk of radiation-related sickness after a nuclear disaster could help triage emergency medical treatment. (sciencenews.org)
He told me they have accepted they will all probably die from radiation sickness in the short term or cancer in the long-term. (dailymail.co.uk)
A short-term dose of 1000 mSv (1 Sv) is about the threshold of acute radiation syndrome (sickness). (world-nuclear.org)

The Nuclear medicine unit of the Medical radiation physics research group, Malmö, Lund university has a long tradition of performing biokinetic studies and producing dosimetric models. (lu.se)

We will hold a round-table seminar, entitled "The Diplomacy of Nuclear Safety and Radiation Dosimetry," inviting Associate Professor Maria Rentetzi of National Technical University of Athens as follows. (hiroshima-u.ac.jp)
Mikael Gunnarsson, "Biokinetics and radiation dosimetry of 14C-labelled triolein, urea, glycocholic acid and xylos in man. (lu.se)

Comparison of mortality patterns after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant radiation disaster and during the COVID-19 pandemic. (bvsalud.org)
Though no direct health hazards caused by radiation , such as acute radiation injury , were observed following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident , indirect deaths have been reported, including those caused by initial emergency evacuation and relocation, medical disruption, and psychological and social health effects. (bvsalud.org)

For example, in Tom Clancy's book 'The Hunt for Red October,' a Russian submarine has a nuclear reactor accident with radiation leakage that forces the crew to abandon ship. (howstuffworks.com)
The key difference, she said, is that nuclear weapons produce huge amounts of penetrating gamma radiation, whereas a reactor accident produces isotopic radiation from caesium-137 and iodine-131 that can only cause harm if taken into the body. (world-nuclear-news.org)

At Three Mile Island and Chernobyl , nuclear power plants released radioactive substances into the atmosphere during nuclear accidents. (howstuffworks.com)
And in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, a nuclear crisis raised fears about radiation and questions about the safety of nuclear power . (howstuffworks.com)
X-ray machines, some types of sterilization equipment and nuclear power plants all use nuclear radiation - but so do nuclear weapons . (howstuffworks.com)
And people tend to equate nuclear power plants with the atomic bomb and the two are very different things. (world-nuclear-news.org)
And I think also we didn't really know the effects of nuclear power accidents until we've had sufficient time after they've happened to really look at the results and we're there now with Chernobyl, we're 30 years past the accident, it's the 30th anniversary this year. (world-nuclear-news.org)
Regarding nuclear power, she proposed the question, "Are we trying to be too safe? (world-nuclear-news.org)
The Shedding Light on Nuclear Radiation series teaches students what nuclear radiation is and how humans have harnessed its awesome power. (films.com)
The Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province, China seen on December 20, 2018. (cnn.com)
There is no abnormality in the radiation environment around the nuclear power plant. (cnn.com)
China's nuclear power plants as of now have maintained a good operating record. (cnn.com)
Instead, the regulator said it "reviewed and approved the relevant limits of specific radioactivity of inert gases in the reactor coolant at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. (cnn.com)
These limits are used for operational management and have nothing to do with radiation levels outside the nuclear power plant," the administration said in a statement on its official social media account. (cnn.com)
EDF holds a 30% stake in the power plant's owner and operator, TNPJVC - a joint venture with state-owned China General Nuclear Power Group. (cnn.com)
China General Nuclear Power Group and three of its affiliates were added to a US entity list in August 2019, cutting the Chinese company's access to US technology. (cnn.com)
Sleeping next to someone gives us a much higher radiation dose than living close to a nuclear power station - both of which are harmless. (world-nuclear.org)
Many find radiation scary, especially when it is associated with a nuclear power station, despite the fact that there is no difference between natural radiation and 'man-made' radiation. (world-nuclear.org)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for public comment and information on approaches to updating radiation protection standards for nuclear power operations. (powermag.com)
It is also re-examining whether additional water protection provisions are needed to safeguard the public and environment to address concerns about leaked radioactive elements from nuclear power plants in groundwater as have been reported in recent years. (powermag.com)
Growing concern about greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels could lead to a renewed interest in nuclear power," the agency said, when asked why the rule's revision was being prioritized. (powermag.com)
The nuclear industry anticipates demand for construction of new nuclear power plants in the next 10 to 30 years. (powermag.com)
Now, however, with Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming looming and widely accepted (largely based on the same social mechanism) we find ourselves driven to reconsider nuclear power as the only existing practical source of low carbon power. (chicagoboyz.net)
Don't get me started on the massive costs that our fear of radiation cost the US nuclear power industry due to the way closed down plants need to be decommissioned. (chicagoboyz.net)
The agency notes that in the event of an accident at one of the power units of the ZNPP, the radiation cloud would move southeast toward Russia. (pravda.com.ua)
Prior to the operation of the first Belarussian nuclear power plant (BelNPP), the baseline of the radiation environment was determined within a radius of about 30 km from BelNPP. (lu.se)
Even after four years had passed since the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station, neither the national nor prefectural government had implemented policies to eliminate the exposure of children to radiation. (cnic.jp)

Unfortunately, the verdict in the Children's Trial Against Radiation Exposure which was handed down on March 1, 2021 brought renewed suffering to the children who had spent the last ten years living with anxiety and their parents who had taken pains to protect their children. (cnic.jp)

Imaging of the radiation emitted from the radionuclide of the radiopharmaceutical is carried out using a gamma camera (planar or SPECT- Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) or PET (Positron Emission Tomography). (lu.se)
Even though the amount of the radioactive substance administered to the patient is of nanogram or even lower levels, the activity of the radionuclide and the radiation exposure of the patient and the staff may be of concern. (lu.se)
The radionuclide gives off radiation that's picked up by a scanner placed over a certain area of your body. (msdmanuals.com)

We will now consider the passage of each type of radiation through matter with most attention given to gamma-rays because they are the most common type used in nuclear medicine. (wikibooks.org)
One of the main effects that you will notice irrespective of the type of radiation is that ions are produced when radiation interacts with matter. (wikibooks.org)
One added feature to bring on board however is that our spaceship sometimes has an electric charge depending on the type of radiation it represents. (wikibooks.org)
These factors include the dose (how much), the duration (how long), and the type of radiation. (cdc.gov)

This is due to the fact that the atmosphere reduces the amount of radiation from space that we are exposed to. (world-nuclear.org)
The relationship between radiation exposure and cancer has been researched extensively for more than 100 years and it has been proven that radiation is only a weak carcinogen - in other words, it takes a very large amount of radiation to increase the risk of cancer only slightly. (world-nuclear.org)
The EPA sets limits on the amount of radiation that can be released into the environment, though regulatory responsibility for licensing and oversight of commercial nuclear plants falls to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). (powermag.com)
Doctors try to limit the total amount of radiation you are exposed to over your lifetime. (msdmanuals.com)

The worst nuclear accident in history, which took place at Chernobyl, caused the death of 28 nuclear plant and emergency workers who were exposed to lethal amounts of radiation. (world-nuclear.org)

Adapting the measures implemented in the acute to subacute phases of the COVID-19 disaster to radiation disasters may help improve management following future radiation disasters . (bvsalud.org)

They are saying that it could take up to 40 years to clean up the Fukushima disaster, and meanwhile countless innocent people will develop cancer and other health problems as a result of exposure to high levels of nuclear radiation. (rinf.com)
We are talking about a nuclear disaster that is absolutely unprecedented, and it is constantly getting worse. (rinf.com)
We evaluated the radiation disaster experience with that of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic that emerged while facing the challenges from the radiation disaster. (bvsalud.org)
From the similarities between the two disasters , three main issues should be prioritised as initial emergency evacuation measures in a radiation disaster emergency exposure medicine , the establishment of a medical system, and protection of death with dignity . (bvsalud.org)

Nuclear materials - s-ubstances that emit nuclear radiation - are fairly common and have found their way into our normal vocabularies in many different ways. (howstuffworks.com)
Building materials can also emit radiation. (world-nuclear.org)

When a nuclear weapon explodes, it gives off four types of energy: a blast wave, intense light, heat, and radiation. (cdc.gov)
A nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "an event that has led to significant consequences to people, the environment or the facility. (wartsila.com)
Those control rods block neutrons from entering the core and inducing the fission reactions that produce nuclear energy. (livescience.com)
Writes Bellona: "It's something the world nuclear energy community never thought it would see - and thus never prepared for. (beyondnuclear.org)
The warning included an accusation the Chinese safety authority was raising the acceptable limits for radiation detection outside the plant in order to avoid having to shut it down, according to a letter from French firm Framatome to the US Department of Energy, obtained by CNN. (cnn.com)
That resolution is what allows the scintillator to pinpoint the energy of a radiation source, which can be like a signature for investigators. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)
Act on peaceful utilization of nuclear energy and ionising radiation and on amendments to related acts (No. 18/1997 Coll. (ilo.org)
Deals with various aspects of peaceful utilisation of nuclear energy and ionising radiation. (ilo.org)
and for state supervision over nuclear energy utilization. (ilo.org)
[ 3 ] In a broad sense, any energy-carrying waveform must be considered a kind of radiation. (medscape.com)
These radiation particles and rays carry enough energy that they can knock out electrons from molecules, such as water, protein, and DNA, with which they interact. (cdc.gov)

When the rods drop into the core, the heat put out by the nuclear fuel rods they surround plummets instantly, reducing the core's temperature to less than 5 percent of normal in a matter of seconds. (livescience.com)
A nuclear expert has warned it could be a 100 years before fuel rods at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are safe. (dailymail.co.uk)
Dr John Price, a former member of the Safety Policy Unit at the UK's National Nuclear Corporation, said radiation leaks will continue and it could take 50 to 100 years before the nuclear fuel rods have cooled enough to be removed. (dailymail.co.uk)
The agency said only five of the reactor's more than 60,000 fuel rods have been affected, reiterating there is no risk of "radiation leaking to the environment. (cnn.com)

The inspiration for Santamarta's research, he notes, were two famous nuclear facility incidents: the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant core meltdown and the 2007 theft of fuel pellets of uranium oxide from a nuclear fuel facility in Spain. (darkreading.com)
The primary exposures include diagnostic radiographs, radiopharmaceuticals, workplace exposures, and environmental exposures such as those that occurred after the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear reactor accidents. (medscape.com)

Title : Risk of leukaemia mortality from exposure to ionising radiation in US nuclear workers: a pooled case-control study Personal Author(s) : Daniels, Robert D.;Bertke, Stephen;Waters, Kathleen M.;Schubauer-Berigan, Mary K. (cdc.gov)
Authors' response: solid cancer mortality among US radiation workers. (cdc.gov)

Technicians at the plant are preparing to release steam that has been vaporized by heat from the nuclear core in order to lower the pressure around the core and prevent a meltdown. (livescience.com)
It it has emerged that the U.S. is readying a team of nuclear workers to fly out to the stricken plant. (dailymail.co.uk)
The company was approached by sub-contractors for the General Electric-Hitachi U.S. nuclear plant. (dailymail.co.uk)
The thought of a team of U.S. nuclear experts riding in to save the day at the Fukushima plant brings to mind the exploits of heroic American firefighter Red Adair. (dailymail.co.uk)
On Wednesday, China's National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) denied raising the acceptable limits of radiation outside the plant to avoid its shutdown. (cnn.com)
In the absence of a long-term nuclear waste disposal policy, meanwhile, spent nuclear fuel is being stored at nuclear plant pools or storage casks, the EPA noted. (powermag.com)
Six decades ago, you wouldn't find it on any publicly available map because it hosted a crucial element of the Soviet Union's nascent nuclear weapons program, the Mayak plant. (rt.com)

We can also appreciate from the table that alpha-particles are quite massive relative to the other types of radiation and also to the electrons of atoms of the material through which they are passing. (wikibooks.org)

Purpose: Current Monte Carlo simulations modeling space radiation exposure typically use simplistic human phantoms with low anatomical detail and minimal variability in physical characteristics. (duke.edu)

Our main reason for doing this is to find out what happens to the radiation as it passes through matter and also to set ourselves up for considering how it interacts with living tissue and how to detect radiation. (wikibooks.org)

We found that the frequency of most diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures performed by technologists increased over time, particularly for cardiac and positron emission tomography (PET) scans, while the frequency of therapeutic procedures performed remained stable. (bmj.com)
Martin Andersson, "Radiation dose to patients in diagnostic nuclear medicine. (lu.se)
Sigrid Leide Svegborn, "Radiation exposure of the patient in diagnostic nuclear medicine. (lu.se)

BEIJING - The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) dismissed a resurfacing hypothesis that nuclear radiation due to burning of uranium-containing coal is the primary cause of smog. (chinadaily.com.cn)
The MEP said in a Saturday statement that nuclear radiation has no correlation with smog, and the country's atmospheric radiation is stable with no uranium-rich particles detected, based on a recent MEP-led research. (chinadaily.com.cn)
According to readings from 167 atmospheric radiation monitoring stations across the country over the past decade, the radiation level has been stable, with no uranium-rich particles detected, the MEP said. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Zhao Shunping, a researcher with the Radiation Monitoring Technical Center of the MEP, said the atmospheric radiation level is absolutely normal, and the content of uranium in air particles is too minute to exert any influences on people's health. (chinadaily.com.cn)

This includes the IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme , which aims to help increase the number of women in the nuclear field, and the Bursary Scheme offered by The Nuclear Industry Benevolent Fund . (surrey.ac.uk)
In the framework of the IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety, the IAEA has assisted Fukushima Prefecture through two consecutive cooperation projects from 2012 to 2020. (world-nuclear-news.org)
The low cost of drones and the fact that people avoid being exposed to radiation by using them are significant advantages of this technology, the IAEA notes. (world-nuclear-news.org)
UAV-based technologies will be crucial for advancing radiation monitoring, including enhancing the application of environmental mapping and improving long-term monitoring of contaminated areas, said Miroslav Pinak, head of the IAEA Radiation Safety and Monitoring Section. (world-nuclear-news.org)

Our innovative MSc in nuclear science and radiation protection is taught by a combination of inspired nuclear physics academics from Surrey's School of Mathematics and Physics and forward-looking experts from the UK's nuclear industries. (surrey.ac.uk)
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Because we are constantly surrounded by radiation, our bodies have developed sophisticated protection mechanisms against its effects. (world-nuclear.org)
Although adherence to most radiation protection practices increased, lead apron use sharply declined. (bmj.com)

Look at what's going on now: They're dumping huge amounts of radioactivity into the ocean - no one expected that in 2011," Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear policy lecturer at the University of California-Santa Cruz, told Global Security Newswire . (rinf.com)

X-rays are measured in several types of units, the most important of which are the radiation-absorbed dose (rad), which is a US measurement, and the gray (Gy), which is an international measurement. (medscape.com)
X rays and gamma rays are types of electromagnetic radiation. (cdc.gov)

Cone-beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) has been widely used in image-guided radiation therapy for target localization. (duke.edu)

The radiation level around a nuclear reactor at the Fukushima nuclear facility near Tokyo has risen to 1,000 times its normal level since this morning's earthquake blew out the plant's cooling system. (livescience.com)
Three Mile Island's mechanical failure led to inconsistent radiation level readings to the plant's operators that ultimately exacerbated the accident, according to Santamarta. (darkreading.com)

Because we cannot sense radiation, we rely on different interpretations and portrayals of it to try and understand it - popular culture has played a significant role in shaping the way many of us relate to radiation. (world-nuclear.org)

The name "Kyshtym" will probably mean nothing to the wider public, despite it belonging to the third-worst nuclear accident in history. (rt.com)
In the event of a severe accident at the Zaporizhzhia NPP, the radiation cloud - according to the wind forecast on Monday 29 August - would cover part of the south of Ukraine and the southwestern regions of the Russian Federation. (pravda.com.ua)

On average, we all receive between 2 and 3 millisieverts (mSv) of radiation every year, but this varies considerably around the world due to factors such as altitude and the composition of the ground. (world-nuclear.org)

Nuclear scans use radioactive substances to see structures and functions inside your body. (medlineplus.gov)

Fearing radiation leaks, the government ordered the evacuation of thousands of residents within a 1.8-mile radius of the Fukushima facility this morning. (livescience.com)

14. Atmospheric radiation from Fukushima reached the west coast of the United States within a few days back in 2011. (rinf.com)

The main negative health effect that people often associate with radiation exposure is cancer. (world-nuclear.org)
Getting too much radiation can raise your chance of getting cancer. (msdmanuals.com)

When a nuclear weapon explodes, a large fireball is created. (cdc.gov)

What is a nuclear weapon? (cdc.gov)
A nuclear weapon is a device that uses a nuclear reaction to create an explosion. (cdc.gov)
What are the main dangers of a nuclear weapon? (cdc.gov)
A nuclear weapon would cause great destruction, death, and injury and have a wide area of impact. (cdc.gov)
Sheriff's deputies pulled over the driver and detained him and his passenger for about one hour while they confirmed that the man was not carrying a nuclear weapon and that he had received radiation treatment. (techdirt.com)

We have focussed in previous chapters on the source of radiation and the types of radiation. (wikibooks.org)
Before we do this let us first remind ourselves of the physical characteristics of the major types of radiation. (wikibooks.org)

Kenarangui said the team tried several samples at the Radiation Measurement and Application Laboratory and the La 0.2 Y 1.8 O 3 had the best potential of any they examined. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)

Researchers say recently identified radiation detection properties of a light-emitting nanostructure built in their lab could open doors for homeland security and medical advances. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)

To improve and upgrade the existing regulatory infrastructure for radiation and nuclear safety in the Kingdom of Bahrain. (iaea.org)
China attaches great importance to nuclear safety and has established a nuclear safety supervision system that is in line with international standards and national conditions," he said. (cnn.com)
On 16 March, Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission recommended local authorities to instruct evacuees under 40 years of age leaving the 20 km zone to ingest stable iodine as a precaution against ingestion ( e.g. via milk) of radioactive iodine-131. (world-nuclear.org)

Many people use this compound as a host material for lasers or other optical operations, but no one had ever tried this for radiation detection as far as we know," Chen said. (homelandsecuritynewswire.com)

Denver, sitting at a higher altitude, receives more radiation due to a thinner atmosphere. (world-nuclear.org)

Design flaws in devices used to monitor radiation levels in nuclear plants, hospitals, seaports, and at border controls, could be exploited by an attacker to inject phony radiation readings, a security researcher has found. (darkreading.com)
Or the reverse: it could send phony readings of high radiation levels when none were actually present, he says. (darkreading.com)
Later, the military came to get radiation readings in it. (rt.com)

The fields of medical health physics, imaging, and radiotherapy have pushed the development and implementation of numerous radiation monitoring systems. (duke.edu)

Some fish samples tested to date have had very high levels of radiation: one sea bass sample collected in July, for example, had 1,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium. (rinf.com)
Then on March 11, the plaintiffs and their lawyers decided to continue fighting for the Children's Lawsuit Against Radiation Exposure by filing an appeal with the Sendai High Court. (cnic.jp)
The use of radiation for diagnostic imaging in the pregnant woman is usually associated with a high level of anxiety for the woman, her family, and, often, the physician. (medscape.com)

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Organisms7

Diseases41

Chemicals and Drugs38

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment88

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