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"Ask the Experts" Category: Environmental and Background Radiation
Q682 – Environmental monitoring training Q689 – Background levels for various states Q824 – Radiation in everyday life Q909 – Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Q922 – Correlation between background radiation ...
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Radiation Risk
Radiation Risk. A briefing (47 pages) on risks in everyday life, background radiation, and radiation risk. American Nuclear Society Position Statement on "Health Effects of Low-Level Radiation." Excellent summary of existing reseach on low level radiation effects with ...
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Ch. 10: Fallout Radiation Meters - Nuclear War Survival Skills
X rays from very close to natural background radiation up to 300 R/hr, in two ranges ... radiation-monitoring instruments to the radiation units usually given by American civil defense instruments, or used in the U.S. in regulations and articles concerning radiation hazards: ABSORBED RADIATION ... instrument measures dose rates slightly above normal background radiation; it will not prove that your ...
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Office of Radiation Protection - Index Page for Fact Sheets
Kristen Schwab. Introductory Radiation Fact Sheets Basic overviews of radiation where no knowledge of science or radiation is needed. Background Radiation Natural versus Man-Made (Fact Sheet #10, 374KB PDF) Medical Uses of Radioactivity (Fact Sheet #20, 32KB PDF) Surviving a Dirty Bomb (Fact Sheet #39, 23KB PDF) Office of Radiation ...
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Health Effects | Radiation Protection | US EPA
There is no firm basis for setting a "safe" level of exposure above background for stochastic effects. Many sources emit radiation that is well below natural background levels. ... Exposure What limits does EPA set on exposure to radiation? Health physicists generally agree on limiting a person's exposure beyond background radiation to about 100 mrem per year from all ...
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Radiation Terms and Definitions
Background radiation Becquerel (Bq) Beta particle Bioassay Biological half-life Byproduct Chain reaction Charged particle Collective dose Committed dose equivalent Committed effective dose equivalent Compact Contamination Cosmic radiation ... Rad Radiation area Radiation detection instrument Radiation sickness (syndrome) Radiation source Radiation standards Radiation warning symbol Radiation weighting ...
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Frequently Asked Questions - Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Radiation Effects Research Foundation Menu does not appear -- SiteMap Frequently Asked Questions 11 ... background radiation level to which people are exposed in daily life (1-2 mSv), or about one-fourth of the currently accepted average annual dose allowed for radiation ... the group of survivors considered here is about 200 mSv. The radiation dose decreases by about one-half for every 200-meter increase ...
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Frequently Asked Questions - Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Neutrons comprised 10% or less of the A-bomb radiation, whereas gamma rays comprised the majority of A-bomb radiation. Neutrons cause ordinary, non-radioactive materials to become radioactive, ... are now far less than the dose received from background radiation. Hence, there is no detectable effect of present-day residual radiation on human health. In fact, today both Hiroshima and ...
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Radiation Safety Resources
Measurements were taken with a Bicron microrem meter. Charts of exposure rate vs. time and distance. Calculate Your Annual Radiation ...
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EPA SunWise: Background Information
Map En Español Program Summary Background Information Becoming a SunWise School Tools Available Enter/View UV Data Program Evaluation Educator Resources Background Information Children spend lots of ... physically active, but must learn to protect themselves from overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. This overexposure can cause serious health effects, including skin cancer and other skin ...
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