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| | Radiation Safety Manual |
 | | The Radiation Safety Office will keep a record of any dose received and will send each worker a copy of his or her exposure record upon request. | | | Authorized Users and Radiation Workers are responsible for securing waste until the OHS removes it. | | | Old and new dosimetry records will be added to obtain cumulative records. |
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| | Ionizing radiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In addition, there are four ways in which we can protect ourselves: | | | While most solar radiation is electro-magnetic radiation, the sun also produces particle radiation, solar cosmic rays, which vary with the solar cycle. | | | Far ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays are all ionizing radiation, while visible light, microwaves, and radio waves are non-ionizing radiation. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation
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| | An Introduction to Radiation Hormesis |
| | Luckey T. A rosseta stone for ionizing radiation; radiation protectionmanagement, Vol. | | | The concept of radiation hormesis is usually applied to physiological benefits from low LET radiation in the range of 1-50 cGy total absorbed dose (Macklis 1991). | | | Although radiation hormesis data are still incomplete, extensive epidemiological studies have indicated that radiation hormesis is really exist. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/mo/radioadaptive/inthorm.html
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| | Howstuffworks "How Nuclear Radiation Works" |
| | You've probably heard people talk about radiation both in fiction and in real life. | | | In this edition of HowStuffWorks, we will look at nuclear radiation so that you can understand exactly what it is and how it affects your life on a daily basis. | | | All of these terms are related by the fact that they all have something to do with nuclear elements, either natural or man-made. |
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/nuclear.htm
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| | Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center: Radiation, Radioactivity |
| | RADIOACTIVE DECAY CALCULATOR 1 OF 6 CALCULATORS (JAVASCRIPT) - UBC Radiation Safety, Department of Health, Safety and Environment, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada VERY EXTENSIVE. | | | GAMMA CALCULATOR - Radiation Geophysics, Geological Survey of Canada VERY VERY EXTENSIVE. | | | For more information see Xing Alice Chen's Homepage or the Vision Science and Technology Group |
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http://www.martindalecenter.com/CalculatorsD_Rad.html
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| | Radiation Therapy |
| | Adjuvant which is a treatment that is designed to reduce the risk of tumor recurrence. | | | The source of radiation is made in the form of wires, seeds or plaques and are inserted into the tumor for delivering high doses of radiation. | | | The side effects of the radiation depend on the exact type of tumor treated and the location of the radiation treatment. |
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http://www.tirgan.com/radiation.htm
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| | Imaginis - Radiation Therapy for the Treatment of Breast Cancer |
| | Occasionally, radiation therapy is used before surgery to shrink the size of a tumor. | | | Brachytherapy involves the surgical placement of 10 to 20 plastic catheters (tiny tubes called implants) into the breast tissue next to the tumor to help guide the radioactive materials to the correct area of the body. | | | While the radiation is being administered, the technologist will leave the room and monitor the patient on a closed-circuit television. |
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http://imaginis.com/breasthealth/radio_bctreatment.asp
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| | Clavius: Environment - radiation primer |
| | Most people aren't familiar with the various units and concepts used to measure radiation. | | | Radiation exposure is measured in American units by the "rad", an acronym standing for "radiation absorbed dose", and in the SI system by the Gray (Gy). | | | The problem is exacerbated by the fact that Americans have one system of units for measuring things, and the rest of the world has another system. |
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http://www.clavius.org/envradintro.html
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| | Radiation Effects |
| | They wanted to study the effects of radiation, but did not provide medical attention. | | | However, the total number of deaths is not precisely known because records of military personnel in each city were destroyed; entire families perished, leaving no one to report the deaths; and forced laborers were present in unknown numbers. | | | All of the types of radiation mentioned contrasts with one another, and all developed at some time during or after the A-bomb hit Hiroshima. |
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http://www.hiroshima-is.ac.jp/Hiroshima/radiation.htm
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| | ACS :: Radiation Therapy Principles |
| | Radiation may be used in early stage cancers to cure or control the disease, and it can be used before surgery to shrink the tumor or after surgery to prevent the cancer from coming back... | | | It is, however, one of the most important parts of radiation therapy... | | | As with tumors, normal tissues that are dividing more rapidly may be affected and cause some of the side effects of radiation treatment... |
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http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/eto_1_3_Radiation_Therapy.asp
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| | Electromagnetic Spectrum - Introduction |
| | Electromagnetic radiation from space is unable to reach the surface of the Earth except at a very few wavelengths, such as the visible spectrum, radio frequencies, and some ultraviolet wavelengths. | | | Radiation is energy that travels and spreads out as it goes-- visible light that comes from a lamp in your house or radio waves that come from a radio station are two types of electromagnetic radiation. | | | Electromagnetic radiation can be described in terms of a stream of photons, which are massless particles each traveling in a wave-like pattern and moving at the speed of light. |
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http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/emspectrum.html
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| | An accident in which two people died in Japan was billed as the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. | | | The number of hits on this page since 1996 Feb 17. | | | If you ingest it in an absorbable form, it goes to the bones, and the radiation is bad for you. |
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http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/radiation.html
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| | The Why Files 1. Radiation, 60 years later |
| | The electromagnetic radiation made by flashlights, magnets and cell phones cannot do this. | | | First, some definitions: Ionizing radiation -- alpha and beta particles, and X-rays and gamma rays -- is released by nuclear reactions in bombs, power plants and uranium-bearing rocks (X-rays are also made in medical equipment). | | | Yet all humans are exposed to background radiation (in the United States, the average is 360 millirems per year), from radon, cosmic rays and other sources, and life expectancy continues to rise. |
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| | CDC Radiation Emergencies Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About a Radiation Emergency |
| | Amounts of radiation released into the environment are measured in units called curies. | | | Potassium iodide (KI) should only be taken in a radiation emergency that involves the release of radioactive iodine, such as an accident at a nuclear power plant or the explosion of a nuclear bomb. | | | Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site of Oak Ridge Associated Universities: Radiation Accident Management |
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| | CDC Radiation Emergencies |
| | How radiation exposure affects pregnant women and their unborn babies. | | | Brief video covering key radiation principles and radiological procedures | | | This broadcast covers the basic components of radiological population monitoring guidelines CDC is developing for communities. |
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http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/index.asp
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| | Radiation Detection and Experimentation Page |
| | Radiation existed long before Man, even though some would have you believe otherwise. | | | Radon gas exists in most parts of the US, in varying levels depending upon where you live. | | | Sources of Natural Radiaion, radiation is all around us, naturally. |
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http://www.blackcatsystems.com/science/radiation.html
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| | Anti-radiation Missile Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ LaunchBase.net |
| | The cluster bombs can be used to ensure that after the ARM disables the SAM system's radar, the command post, missile launchers etc. are also destroyed to make sure the SAM site stays down. | | | Smart SAM operators learned to turn their radar off when an ARM was fired at them then turn it back on later, greatly reducing the missile's effectiveness. | | | Early ARMs AGM-45 Shrike weren't particularly intelligent; they would simply home in on the source of radiation and explode when they got near. |
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http://www.launchbase.net/encyclopedia/Anti-radiation_missile
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| | Radiation |
| | For biologists, the most significant forms of radiation are light, heat, and ionizing radiation. | | | rem), the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements wants us to give up the rad in favor of the gray (Gy), a unit 100 times larger. | | | In fact, I will try to express all radiation doses in a single unit, the millirem. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Radiation therapy |
| | Often it is used to shrink the tumor as much as possible before surgery to remove the cancer. | | | Radiation can also be given after surgery to prevent the cancer from coming back. | | | These side effects depend on the part of the body being irradiated and the dose and schedule of the radiation: |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001918.htm
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| | Sloan-Kettering - Breast Cancer: Radiation Therapy |
| | The good news is that, apart from some general fatigue, there are few side effects associated with radiation therapy. | | | Because the risk of side effects is greater when radiation therapy is used a second time, our physicians can help minimize those effects while maximizing the patient's chances of successful treatment. | | | Radiation oncologists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering have been studying the effects of radiation therapy on the breast in hopes of improving cosmetic outcome. |
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| | Radiation Studies CDC RSB |
| | CDC provides basic information on radiation and its health effects as well as emergency instructions for individuals and families. | | | One aspect of this work is its radiation studies program, which looks at the relationship between environmental radiation exposures and public health. | | | CDC studies the health effects of environmental radiation exposures from nuclear weapons production facilities in the United States. |
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| | Issues - Radiation |
| | Manmade radiation benefits our daily lives in many ways, but radiation can also pose risks. | | | Actions You Can Take to Control Radiation Exposure | | | Radiation in Our World: Fun Facts and Activities (.pdf, 448Kb) |
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| | NOAA Home Page - Radiation |
| | The Radiation Budget product suite is produced from the primary morning and afternoon Polar Orbiters, NOAA-15 and NOAA-14. | | | NOAA's Air Resources Lab is now operating a national radiation monitoring program that builds upon and takes over from earlier NOAA networks monitoring components of solar radiation across the continental U.S.A. Radiation Info | | | Shortwave solar radiation information and data from the Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) buoy array. |
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| | Radiation Control - Minnesota Dept. of Health |
| | While the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulates nuclear power plants and most radioactive materials, Minnesota's Radiation Control program is responsible for regulating machine produced sources of radiation to which the public may be exposed. | | | Ionizing radiation can be instrumental in the improvement of health, welfare, and productivity of the public if properly used, and may impair the health of people and the industrial and agricultural potentials of the state if improperly used. | | | For questions about this page, please contact Radiation Control at ram@health.state.mn.us. |
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| | rat haus reality: the health costs of low-level ionizing radiation |
| | Cumulatively his work will save tens of millions of lives." | | | His work has already changed the way the world views the dangers of radiation, and his latest book [Radiation from Medical Procedures] will -- eventually, after a long fight -- revolutionize the way the world looks at medical radiation. | | | Poison Fire, Sacred Earth, World Uranium Hearing, 1992, excerpts |
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http://www.ratical.org/radiation
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| | Radiation - Web Server Tools and CGI Software for Webmasters |
| | In late 2000, we decided to provide only freeware products from the Radiation line of tools. | | | Users who previously purchased a commercial Radiation product can still find our user guides and product information pages in our Archived Products section of this site. | | | Radiation is the software development division of GMD Studios, based in Orlando, Florida. |
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| | Radiation Therapy |
| | This section of breastcancer.org will help you face the challenges of radiation therapy by: | | | Despite what many women fear, radiation therapy is relatively easy to tolerate, and the side effects are restricted to the area being treated. | | | Radiation therapy—also called radiotherapy—is a highly targeted, highly effective way to destroy cancer cells that may linger after surgery. |
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http://www.breastcancer.org/tre_rad_idx.html
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| | Radiation Safety |
| | Questions and Answers About the Biological Effects of Radiofrequency Radiation (FCC) | | | UV Index / Sun Protection (Collection of sheets from the EPA) | | | Radiation and Health Physics (Collection from University of Michigan) |
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http://www.pp.okstate.edu/ehs/links/rad.htm
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| | Lesson coverpage and index |
| | This is a self paced lesson on the basics of radiation and radioactivity. | | | Page 10: Measurement of Radiation, Gas Filled Detector | | | Page 11: Measurement of Radiation, Sodium Iodide Detector |
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http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/cover.htm
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| | rrsOnline |
| | Corporate and Institutional Members of the Radiation Research Society | | | rrsNEWS, the official newsletter of the Radiation Research Society (Quarterly) | | | Please send comments on or suggestions for this website to |
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| | Health Protection Agency Radiation Protection Division |
| | Material previously available on the NRPB web site may be accessed here, including for the Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation (AGNIR) and the Advisory Group on Ionising Radiation (AGIR). | | | Part of the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, the Division carries out the Health Protection Agency’s work on ionising and non-ionising radiations. | | | It undertakes research to advance knowledge about protection from the risks of these radiations; provides laboratory and technical services; runs training courses; provides expert information and has a significant advisory role in the UK. |
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