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Radiation Injuries Summary
1,323 words, approx. 4 pages Radio and television signals, radar, heat, infrared, ultraviolet, sunlight, starlight, cosmic rays, gamma rays, and x rays all belong to the electromagnetic spectrum and differ only in their relative energy, frequency, and wavelength. These waves all...
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Radiation Sickness Summary
559 words, approx. 2 pages Radiation sickness, also known as acute radiation syndrome or ionizing radiation injury, is illness resulting from human exposure to ionizing radiation. The radiation exposure may be from natural sources, such as radium, or from man-made sources,...
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Radiation Injuries Summary
2,220 words, approx. 7 pages Radiation injuries are damage to the body caused by ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation (IR) is given off by the sun, X-ray machines, and radioactive elements. The word radiation comes from a Latin term that means "ray of light." It...
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Radiation poisoning Information
4,531 words, approx. 15 pages
 Radiation poisoning, also called "radiation sickness" or a "creeping dose", is a form of damage to organ tissue due to excessive exposure to ionizing radiation. The term is generally used to refer to acute problems caused by a large dosage of radiation...




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 Evening Standard - London
Spy poisoning: 168 tested for radiation
11/29/2006: 397 words, approx. 1 pages DOCTORS and nurses at the hospitals that treated former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko are being assessed for radiation contamination. About 160 staff at Barnet General Hospital and London's University College Hospital could be at risk. Eight members of the public have also...
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 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Antidote to radiation poisoning is largely unavailable to public
11/19/2001: 1,506 words, approx. 5 pages Antidote to radiation poisoning is largely unavailable to public By MARILYNN MARCHIONE of the Journal Sentinel staff Monday, November 19, 2001 As a nuclear accident raged at Three Mile Island in 1979, a federal official made a frantic midnight call...
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Suspect in radiation poisoning mocks MI6
11/21/2007: 693 words, approx. 2 pages The former KGB officer named as a suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London said Wednesday the British government's case against him had collapsed and called the slain man a "traitor."In an interview with The Associated Press, Andrei Lugovoi, who is running for...
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Paper: Police focus on Russian in spy case
1/26/2007: 257 words, approx. 1 pages British police are preparing to ask prosecutors to bring charges against a Russian businessman in the radiation poisoning death of a former Russian intelligence agent turned Kremlin critic, a newspaper reported Friday.The Guardian, quoting unidentified sources in government, said suspicion had fallen on Andrei Lugovoi,...


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