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Bookmark or Share- Chernobyl - Radiation AnswersChernobyl. The accident in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in 1986 was the most devastating event of its kind that has taken place. Prior to discussing its impacts, it would be helpful to describe this plant and the reasons that the accident occurred and that its impacts were so devastating. As a first observation, it is to be ...
- Industrial Uses for RadiationIndustrial Uses. There are many industrial uses of radioactive materials, including material density evaluation, product sterilization, quality control, static elimination, and electricity generation. The radiation sources used for these processes include radiation-producing machines and sealed-source radioactive materials, to name two. In this ...
- Medical Uses for RadiationMedical Uses. There are many uses of radiation in medicine. The most well known is using x rays to see whether bones are broken. The broad area of x-ray use is called radiology. Within radiology, we find more specialized areas like mammography, computerized tomography (CT), and nuclear medicine (the specialty where radioactive material is ...
- Naturally Occurring RadiationThere are three groupings of naturally occurring radiation, mostly based on where the radiation comes from. First there is the radiation in the soils and rocks, called primordial or terrestrial. Then there is radiation that comes from space, called cosmic or cosmogenic. The third is human-made, something created by humans that wouldn’t exist ...
- Effects of Radiation10,000 mSv or more can cause a breakdown of the intestinal lining, leading to internal bleeding, which can lead to illness and death when the dose is to the abdomen. >15,000 mSv or more locally to the skin can cause skin reddening and blistering. Radiation Answers provides information about the effects of radiation exposure on the human body ...
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