The radiation is believed to be from radium paint used decades ago on aircraft instruments.
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They had lead vests, but the radiation was coming from below, and they weren't protected there.
My cervical cancer soon became uterine and I was put into the radiation treatment cycle.
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One criticism of the coronary CT scan has been the radiation exposure associated with the test.
The bottom line is that the radiation danger diminishes by half every 30 years.
If the radiation gathered in one place it would be a sign of a potential tumour.
In the spring of 1942, it became clear that the Radiation Laboratory at M.
The situation at Fukushima remains worrisome with new developments on the radiation leak coming in daily.
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Additionally, the solar minimum during that time will also limit the radiation exposure to the astronauts.
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Responsibilities: Define and implement antenna system architecture to optimize the radiation performance for wireless portable devices.
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They had no worries about serving their time at Chernobyl and the radiation didn't bother them.
So the radiation can penetrate deeper into the brain of children and young adults.
In addition, the worms grew about 10% larger than worms not exposed to the radiation.
It involves timing the radiation beam to the diastole, when the heart is resting between beats.
To be honest, we hadn't paid much attention to the radiation dosimeters we were given.
The radiation crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has also compounded its problems.
Overall, Mars' atmosphere reduces the radiation dose compared to what we saw during the flight to Mars.
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For that reason, the radiation readings are not as accurate as larger, medical radiation readers and dosimeters.
"You need to be very precise about where the radiation beams go, " Dr Roy told BBC News.
The radiation doseage to biological organisms can be as much as several thousand times the background dosage.
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"The closer it gets, the more intense the radiation and the more elements will be melted, " he said.
Professor George Fraser, director of the Space Research Centre at Leicester University, was excited by the radiation research.
They kept asking what to do to stop the radiation leak, but company officials had no answers.
If this coats the myeloma stem cells in the way that rituximab does, the radiation should kill them.
But he added that because the radiation can build up, levels can be high in carriages with fewer passengers.
The scientists examined the effects of the radiation on mitochondrial DNA - the tiny energy factories which power cells.
Usually, when a solar storm hits, most of the radiation either hits the outer radiation belt or the plasmaphere.
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For those most hit by the radiation after Fukushima, their chances of cancer would rise by about 1 percent.
The plant is now stable, but removing all the radiation could take decades.
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Moreover, the radiation would also have generated isotopes (for example, krypton-83 and xenon-126).
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