Radiation is energy that moves from one place to another in a form that can be described as waves or particles. We are exposed to radiation in our everyday life. Some of the most familiar sources of ...

Everyone is exposed to ionizing radiation. Approximately 82% of this exposure is natural background from cosmic and terrestrial sources, and 18% is due to man-made sources. Public exposure to ionizing ...

For many years NRC (AEC)-licensed activities using by-product materials have been taking place at Michigan Technological University. Early in 1991, the University changed from an NRC broad scope ...

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Cancer is the Philippines’ second biggest killer, according to the 2020 Global Cancer Observatory, as the country suffers almost 100 000 cancer related deaths per year. Paramount to reducing this toll ...

Under the draft proposal, the principle that exposure should be “as low as reasonably achievable” will be replaced with hard ...

The decision to build the Belarusian nuclear power plant was made in 2008. A lot has been done since then. The first unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant became operational in 2021. It gave a ...