Radiation Safety Book Abstract

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This paper explains that it is next to impossible to avoid sources of natural radiation in our everyday life, but precautions can be taken to maintain distance from local sources of radiation and to use distance, time, and radiation-shielding as protection. The author points out that radiation is not responsible for the assumed mechanism of carcinogenesis caused by the exposure to magnetic fields. The paper relates that the nuclear industry and many other sources of radioactivity are used in an enormous range of industrial processes, such as industrial radiography, thickness gauges, smoke alarms, and medical diagnosis and treatment. Table of Contents Types and Sources of Ionising Radiation The Effect of Radiation on the Body Detecting Radiation Regulating Body Standards and the Workplace Ionizing Radiation Contamination Stochastic Effects Deterministic Effects Monitoring Radiation Exposure Radiation Accidents Types of Radiation Accident The Food Industry Uses Radiation

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