Radiation damages DNA, so why would you want to expose a fertilized egg to a high radiation environment?
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And, for those space-cadets who still dream of a manned mission to the planet, there is also the Mars radiation environment experiment.
"The radiation environment in deep space is several hundred times what it is on Earth, and that's even inside a shielded spacecraft, " Zeitlin said.
The radiation astronauts would face on a round trip would be comparable to getting an abdominal CT scan "about once every five days, " said Cary Zeitlin, principal scientist for the NASA-led Martian Radiation Environment Experiment.
By employing a specialized lens-free technique, the researchers have created a system that is able to cope with the flood of radiation from an environment filled with flames as well as smoke.
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In like manner, I believe that reactors should be designed such that an earthquake of any magnitude could not destroy the reactor or its containment shell, further that if the reactor core was to start to melt down, the melt down itself would shut the reactor down and, at the very worst, the reactor would entomb itself with no potential release of radiation into the environment.
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Nevertheless, the effectiveness of radiation detection equipment in the maritime environment remains limited.
By interplanetary space, we are talking about an environment in which space radiation is much more intense than it is in LEO, because above Earth orbit is the geomagnetosphere, the Van Allen belts, which trap charged particle radiation coming from deep space.
Also, radiation is not just about total dose to the environment.
Crops need a sheltered environment, protected from the extreme temperatures and frightening levels of radiation found on the moon's surface, with water, carbon dioxide and light.
He says radiation emitted from nuclear power stations was less than that which occurs in our natural environment.
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He is rational about the radiation risks to himself, but fears his daughter growing up in such a potentially poisonous environment.
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