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«We learned a lot about radiation damage from Telstar 1,» he says.
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The probe's visits are also fast and infrequent — about every 53.5 days — to avoid exposure to the planet's electronics - damaging radiation.
The probe's visits are also fast and infrequent — about every 53.5 days — to prevent it from getting too much exposure to the planet's electronics - damaging radiation.
This changes a lot of what scientists thought they knew about how water bears deal with radiation, as they were previously thought to have proteins that repaired damaged DNA, rather than proteins that halt damage altogether.
And the first few announcements about radiation were obviously misleading because air photos revealed more extensive damage than was being let on.
The rest of this special News & Analysis section examines what we have learned about radiation risks from previous exposures (p. 1504), improvements in safety since the boiling water designs at Fukushima (p. 1506), what to do with the wrecked reactors (p. 1507), and damage to research facilities from the earthquake (p. 1509).
In the early days of the crisis, engineers were desperate to learn about the damaged reactors» cores and the radiation levels inside the buildings, data that robots should have been able to provide.
They also tolerated periods of temperatures up to 41 °C and, separately, high ultraviolet radiation — which might come about from damage to the ozone layer.
According to Mark Sircus, in Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, a deficiency of magnesium increases free radical generation in the body and «causes glutathione loss, which is not affordable because glutathione helps to defend the body against damage from cigarette smoking, exposure to radiation, cancer chemotherapy, and toxins such as alcohol and just about everything else.»
There is much to explore about these natural magnetic fields but the purpose here is to warn animal owners that consistent exposure to manmade electromagnetic radiation (ref # 2) can cause immune system damage, heart irregularities, and fertility or behavioral problems in both humans and animals.
As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).
Ongoing challenges with managing the damaged reactors — and concerns about radiation releases — mean the Fukushima disaster is far from over.
We have been listing about the damage that can be caused by cellphone radiations, but according to two new government studies by...