Many people were staying indoors over fears that radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant 200 kilometers to the north are wafting over Tokyo.
Over the years Radiation Therapy has bought out 30 gynecological oncologists, surgeons and urologists.
An explosion in the middle of the night at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine tore off the plant's roof and sent radiation over much of Europe.
After an initial preparation period Ruby faces 33 courses of radiation treatment over the following seven weeks.
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Tashiro, a Hiroshima newspaper journalist, has specialized in stories related to nuclear energy and the effects of radiation for over 30 years.
By unleashing a massive pulse of electromagnetic radiation sweeping over the planet, a severe solar storm could potentially knock out the electric power grid, silence radio and satellite communications and disrupt GPS navigation systems.
In 1966 Kenneth Greisen, Vadim Kuzmin and Georgiy Zatsepin showed that high-energy charged particles (cosmic rays are mostly atomic nuclei, and thus positively charged) should be slowed by collisions with the photons of the cosmic microwave background (radiation left over from the Big Bang that permeates all space).
Many communities across Northern Ireland have campaigned against phone masts over fears that low level radiation could pose a health risk to people living near the ariels.
Many communities across Northern Ireland have campaigned against phone masts over fears that low level radiation could pose a health risk to people living near the installations.
Like previous suits over silicone breast implants, electromagnetic radiation and the anti-nausea drug Bendectin, it is being kept alive by a handful of experts who are willing to contradict mainstream scientists to say that mold can make otherwise healthy people sick.
But on Tuesday, India joined the frey and banned food imports over fears they may be contaminated by radiation from tsunami-hit reactors.
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Because we are about 5, 000 miles from Japan, and radiation is dispersed and diluted over distance, it is highly unlikely that any significant level would reach our shores.
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If a storm hit, a plant or two would have been knocked out, but millions of people would not have been left without power, and radiation would not have spread over hundreds or even thousands of square miles.
And what you really fail to mention is that radiation is cumulative, it builds over time.
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This new photogenic moment, released Thursday, comes courtesy of the European Space Agency's Planck space telescope, which detects cosmic microwave background radiation -- the light left over from the Big Bang.
The first Marine detachment sent to Camp Sendai, which lies just over 80 kilometers 50 miles north of the radiation-spewing power plants, came unprepared for the snowstorms, lacking standard-issue winter parkas and insulated boots.
The effects of radiation only start to become clear at high acute absorbed doses of over 1 Sv (100 rem), and even then it is necessary to eliminate other potential causes before radiation can be unequivocally said to be the cause, advised UNSCEAR.
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Longevity genes appear to slow down the aging process by making cells and tissues more stress-resistant, better able to withstand the inevitable environmental insults that accumulate over a lifetime from bad diet, inflammation, radiation, genetic mutations and toxic chemical by-products called free radicals.
But the issue of radiation protection according to Mr Ojha is "glossed over" with the recognition that more work and "creative solutions" need to be explored.
Daiichi employees have received the highest average radiation doses of those at any Japanese plant every year over the past decade.
While the level of radiation is extremely low, some studies have found that over time a small number of cancer cases could result from scanning millions of people a year.
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However, palliative radiation was an option for her (required 12 treatments over the course of 3 months) to help control the growth of the tumors and most importantly pain management.
Those of us who are sad at the destruction wrought by the tsunami and angry at the horrible over-reaction to Fukushima that has hurt more people than the radiation ever will.
Engineers restored power to some reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant over the weekend, although new concerns about food contamination appeared after radiation levels were detected in tap water near the complex.
The acute radiation exposure that occurs from an accident is expected to occur over several hours.
But over time, the white paint would be reflecting light and other electromagnetic radiation from its surface.
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Special paints are needed to protect the airframe, over a wide range of temperatures, from wind, weather, ultraviolet radiation and exhaust fumes.
According to the report, radiation experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration started raising concerns over use of the technology in 1998 when only 20 machines were in operation throughout the entire country.
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Radiation fear is especially problematic because it is connected directly to the obsessive worries over nuclear war that many of us grew up with.
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