The specific symptoms, the treatments available and the prospects for recovery vary from one person to another and are generally dependent on the amount and type of radioactivity, the radiation energy, the area of the body exposed, and the age and general health of the individual.
She has written about environmental health, climate, radiation, energy and other issues for numerous publications including Miller-McCune Magazine, High Country News, SELF, and Environmental Health Perspectives.
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The energy of the radiation depends on the energy of the electrons.
These intensely bright but fleeting flashes of very high-energy radiation signal some of the Universe's most violent happenings.
This instrument monitors high-energy radiation considered to be a health risk to astronauts and a factor in whether microbes could survive on Mars' surface.
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However, because it emits very low energy radiation and leaves the body relatively quickly, for a given amount of activity ingested, tritium is one of the least dangerous radionuclides.
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And that depends on being able to see the lower-energy radiation, in order to pinpoint what it was that exploded (gamma rays are impossible to focus, so the location of a burst is known only approximately).
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was designed to search for dark matter by collecting high energy radiation known as cosmic rays, and then sort through it looking for a certain class of particle believed to be created after two bits of dark matter collide in space and destroy each other.
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During the dry period, a large part of the energy supplied by radiation is used to sublimate snow or ice and therefore, energy available for melting is low, which leads to low melt rates.
Its Burst Alert Telescope is set up to catch the intense but fleeting flash of very high-energy gamma radiation that initially signals a GRB event.
For some who understand the biophysics of RF and EMF, going back to first principles provides a reality check on a possible threat from this low energy form of radiation.
During the accumulation season, sublimation is reduced because of a low gradient of vapour pressure and the energy supplied by radiation is directly consumed by melting, explaining why discharge is high.
Each component of the energy balance net radiation, turbulent heat fluxes, heat transfer into the ice and heat supplied by precipitation is derived separately from the measurements, and the variability throughout the year is evaluated.
Del Genio studied more than 3, 000 individual cloud "snapshots" collected between 1994 and 1997 at the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains field station.
The scientists examined the effects of the radiation on mitochondrial DNA - the tiny energy factories which power cells.
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source houses synchrotron radiation facilities for research in physics, chemistry, biology, and environmental and materials sciences.
Tashiro, a Hiroshima newspaper journalist, has specialized in stories related to nuclear energy and the effects of radiation for over 30 years.
As they do this they release energy in the form of radiation.
Who is supposed to diagnose and cure the asymmetry problems (in space, time and energy bin distribution) in radiation drive and in hot electron generation and preheat?
Radiation and turbulent fluxes dominate the surface energy balance.
That is what happens when a computer gets too hot, or is bombarded with certain kinds of radiation: the electrons pick up enough energy to breach the dam that has been carefully constructed to contain them.
The Nigerian government has banned another Halliburton subsidiary, Halliburton Energy Services Nigeria, from state contracts after radiation-emitting equipment went missing.
Muons created by low-energy neutrinos produce only small amounts of Cherenkov radiation.
In addition to its weather-watching mission and collection of climate records, MSG-3 has a radiation sensor to measures the amount of solar and infrared energy that is reflected back into space, to better understand climate processes.
Tokyo radiation levels are not hazardous to human health at this time following radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the International Atomic Energy Chief Yukiya Amano told reporters Wednesday.
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The Northern Lights happen when incoming solar radiation hits the earth's upper atmosphere and excites atoms to a new energy state, emitting colours which is energy in the form of light.
The International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization say 28 emergency workers died of radiation sickness in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.
Only the highest-energy x-rays can get through, and that's the invisible radiation that allows researchers observe the black holes indirectly.
Matsushima, the bomb survivor, is worried about the people exposed to the radiation in recent days, but doesn't see long-term viable alternatives to nuclear energy.
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