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Calculate Your Radiation Dose | Radiation Protection | US EPA
Radiation Protection Topics Understanding Radiation Health Effects Calculate Your Radiation Dose Technical Users General Public Reporters Librarians Students/Teachers NEWSROOM PROGRAMS TOPICS REFERENCES Radiation Protection Basics Health Effects Radiation and Radioacitivity Understanding Radiation: Calculate Your Radiation Dose ...
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MedlinePlus: Radiation Exposure
Radiation Exposure and Cancer(American Cancer Society) Radiation Measurement(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Return to top Pictures & Photographs Radiation Symbols(Environmental Protection Agency) Return to top Health Check Tools Calculate Your Radiation Dose ...
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Sources of Radiation
We are concerned with protecting people and the environment from potentially harmful exposures to ionizing radiation. We measure radiation dose in units called rem. Scientists estimate that the average person in the United States receives a dose of about 360 millirem of radiation ...
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Ch. 10: Fallout Radiation Meters - Nuclear War Survival Skills
(R), and radiation dose rates are given in roentgens per hour (R/hr). This simplification is justified because, for external whole-body gamma radiation ... 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 DOSE ...
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Federal Radiation Protection Guidance|Radiation Protection | US EPA
Top of page Local Navigation Radiation Home Basic Information Newsroom Radiation Topics Radiation Programs Waste Management Emergency Response Air & Water Source Reduction & Management Naturally-Occurring Radiation ...
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"Ask the Experts" Category: Doses and Dose Calculations
Radiation Dose Units Relationship Between Radionuclide Gamma Emission and Exposure Rate What is Dose? What Units are Used for Dose? The following HPS Web pages also address this category: Benefits of Medical Radiation ... Q4540 – Annual dose assessments Q5194 – Calculate dose-length product The following Web sites may also be useful: Estimate Background Dose Radiation Dose Assessment Resource Ask ...
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Radiation Protection / CBRN Safety Courses for the UK Fire & Police Service
Radiation dose limits as applied to emergency intervention (incident response) The types of equipment used to monitoring radiation and measure the dose ...
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Guide to 'Radiation' section - Environmental Data Compendium
Index Radiation Radiation: introduction Radiation level by source, 2000 Radon concentrations in housing, 1930-2000 Radiation dose from artificial radioactive substances, 1960-2000 Radiation dose from ...
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Frequently Asked Questions - Radiation Effects Research Foundation
IQ as radiation dose increases, a higher incidence of mental retardation among the heavily exposed, and some impairment in ... any firm conclusions, but the data to date suggest a trend of increasing risk as radiation exposure increases, similar in extent to the trend observed among those exposed to atomic-bomb ...
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Terminology of the health effects of radiation
Ci Measurement of absorbed doses and biological damage: - Old units RAD Radiation absorbed dose. A unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation, equal to 0.01 joules per kilogram of irradiated material. This ... the energy absorbed from ionizing radiation, equal to one joule per kilogram. An absorbed dose of one gray is equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of ...
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