Ionizing Radiation
Ionizing radiation is any energy that causes the ionization of the substance through which it passes. As the radiation is emitted from a source, it detaches a charged particle from ...
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Below Regulatory Concern
Large populations all over the globe continue to be exposed to low-level radiation. Sources include natural background radiation, widespread medical uses of ionizing radiati...
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Ionizing Radiation
High-energy radiation with penetrating competence such as x rays and gamma rays which induces ionization in living material. Molecules are bound together with covalent bonds, and ge...
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Japan's industrial safety agency will set up standards early
next year to protect the public from adverse health effects of
exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields that exist clos...
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pregnant women are receiving
more high-tech imaging exams, exposing their babies to higher
doses of radiation than a decade ago, a study said on Tuesday. While the levels of ra...
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Hamburg (dpa) - A bone break, a bad head injury, blocked coronary
arteries. These conditions are made visible by X-rays and there's no
doubt the resulting image is extremely...
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The government proposed Tuesday relaxing its rules on labeling of irradiated foods and suggested it may allow some products zapped with radiation to be called "pasteurized."The Food and Drug Admini...
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When a person says the word "light," a listener — even a spectroscopist — usually interprets that as meaning "visible light." That's not unexpected, because throughout most of recorded ...
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Each year, approximately two hundred thousand American women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Five to ten percent of them have a hereditary form of this disease. Changes ...
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Ionizing Radiation
Below Regulatory Concern
Japan to safeguard public from effects of magnetic fields
