However, those who are exposed to radiation at work are allowed to receive up to 50 times the normal level.
Madame Curie pioneered the concept of radiation through her work with radium, and brought it to the awareness of the scientific community, vividly describing its unique properties.
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The researchers hope to continue their work modeling radiation from solar storms, with an eye towards better and more accurate predictions, as well as looking for ways to diminish the impacts of such storms.
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She's still undergoing radiation therapy but is back at work.
They added that the findings raise serious questions about the levels of radiation people can be exposed to at work.
Bigelow says that in the three most important measures of a space station's viability--volume, ability to take impact and radiation protection--his expandable systems work much better than traditional hard-sided metal habitats.
This leisurely rural existence is restful in only the most superficial ways: two members of the family suffer from radiation sickness and have been ordered not to work hard.
However, U.S. officials are calling for U.S. citizens to leave Japan and the recent water cannon work has been called off due to radiation levels.
With half a million data points so far, they have tended to corroborate the government's work, but have also revealed some places where radiation was worse than expected.
Sunbeds work by exposing the skin to ultra-violet radiation.
Conventional CT scans are used to work out the shape of the place where a dose of radiation needs to be concentrated in order to attack a tumour without damaging nearby healthy tissue.
The same technique could eventually work for human cancers, especially those that are treated with abdominal radiation therapy such as gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and gynaecological tumours.
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.
He saw how his dad went through chemo and radiation treatments, but never complained, never felt sorry for himself, and continued to work full-time to provide for his family.
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But Dr Mousseau suggests a more likely explanation is that evolution has already been at work near Chernobyl, killing off individual birds that cannot cope with the background radiation and allowing the genes of those that have some tolerance to be passed on.
His willingness to misrepresent my work is of a piece with his inability to tolerate any critical or nuanced discussion of cell phone radiation.
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