Sentences with phrase «more radiation exposure»

Living near a coal - fired power station would give you 100 to 300 times more radiation exposure than living next to a nuclear power plant, and even that is trivial and not the reason coal burning is damaging to your health.

This means they receive more radiation exposure than people who work alongside nuclear reactors.

Not exact matches

More than 30 people died, and thousands of lives have been affected by the exposure to radiation.

For more on how I'm reducing my exposure to microwave radiation, also known as radio frequency radiation (RFR), you'll want to see my write up on Simple Steps to Reduce EMF's.

There are few ethical ways to find out, however: An accidental decades - long exposure in Taiwan suggests it's not as simple as «more radiation is bad.»

With less atmospheric shielding, there is more exposure to radiation.

Far safer jobs exist, with better pay, more job security, more regular hours, and more opportunities... not to mention less exposure to radiation, nasty chemicals, biological pathogens, high voltages, and sharp, pointy things.

And, CT imaging comes with a radiation exposure that itself carries risks, while MRI scans are more costly and have a higher chance of finding things that turn out to be of no concern.

These events — even more than the use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II — launched an ongoing public debate over whether the risks of radiation exposure outweigh the benefits of nuclear technology.

«As with other areas of personalized medicine, we would seek to create individual treatment and prevention plans for astronauts we believe would be more susceptible to cognitive deficits from radiation exposure,» she says.

«One likely cause of more skin cancer among gay and bisexual men is greater exposure to ultraviolet radiation caused by indoor tanning,» said Arron, who also directs the UCSF High Risk Cancer Program.

The figures suggest that the deliberate exposure of humans to radiation was far more widespread than previously believed.

First, we experience more cumulative exposure to the things that mess with DNA in ways that can lead to malignant growth: sunlight, radiation, environmental toxins and noxious by - products of metabolism.

Because children are known to be more susceptible than adults to risks of cancer from radiation, Physicians for Social Responsibility, a U.S. antinuclear proliferation group, condemned the exposure limit as «unconscionable.»

The radiation used for cancer therapies is a much more targeted version of what exists in outer space, and exposure to that radiation presents a major health risk, and thus a serious challenge for NASA, SpaceX, and other organizations trying to explore the solar system.

Such travel, taking one or more years outside the Earth's magnetosphere, would take a high toll on astronauts» health due to exposure to cosmic radiation.

Other work was intended to examine the link between radiation exposure and disease by measuring tissue levels of strontium - 90 and other elements; one strontium - 90 project, for example, examined bones taken from more than 3000 people between 1955 and 1973.

This results in prolonged exposure to radiation and can potentially lead to more side effects.

Additionally, because partial breast radiation is more targeted, there is less exposure to vital organs like the lungs and the heart.

MIT researchers report a more dynamic option this week in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, to continuously monitor the properties of materials being exposed to radiation during the exposure.

In another finding, female scoliosis patients received two times more X-rays than non-surgical patients, amounting to twice the radiation exposure to the breasts, ovaries and bone marrow, and correlating to an over two percent increased lifetime risk of fatal breast cancer, almost one percent risk of fatal leukemia, and three percent risk of genetic defects.

They showed that basal cells were much more efficient at repairing DNA damage, allowing them to survive and reproduce following exposure to chemicals or radiation that damaged the DNA.

Some women with large breasts need more than four views for a complete screening examination, increasing their exposure to ionizing radiation.

Otherwise, radiation exposure from the screening exam, and radiation - induced breast cancer risk, is more than doubled.

Researchers studying the colorfully named zebrafish mutant, mind bomb, have discovered a way to replenish blood cells more quickly after exposure to radiation.

Although long - term melanoma survivors were more likely to report healthier levels of ultraviolet radiation exposure and sun protection behaviors than controls, some still reported indoor tanning or intentionally seeking sun to tan.

When these foods are consumed, a person receives much of this dose internally, often a more severe pathway to receive radiation than by external exposure.

Given the ability of even small invertebrates known as water bears to repair DNA after radiation exposure, more surprises could yet await researchers who study the bacteria.

Because the radiation diminishes quickly over distance, standing further away from the microwave during operation cuts your exposure even more significantly.

That may be technically true: About 90 % of nonmelanoma skin cancers are associated with exposure to ultraviolet radiation, according to the nonprofit Skin Cancer Foundation — and it's clear that most people spend more time outdoors than they do in tanning beds.

And for a vegan bodybuilder who must unfortunatelly play tetris with the food sources that he choses in order to give to his body the right ammounts of aminos, restricting SPI and soy foods so much does not make his goal any easier.There are sometimes that you need a meal thats complete with aminos and soy provides that meal with the additional benefits of lacking the saturated fats trans cholesterol and other endothelium inflammatory factors.I'm not saying that someone should go all the way to 200gr of SPI everyday or consuming a kilo of soy everyday but some servings of soy now and then even every day or the use of SPI which helps in positive nitrogen balance does not put you in the cancer risk team, thats just OVERexaggeration.Exercise, exposure to sunlight, vegan diet or for those who can not something as close to vegan diet, fruits and vegetables which contains lots of antioxidants and phtochemicals, NO STRESS which is the global killer, healthy social relationships, keeping your cortisol and adrenaline levels down (except the necessary times), good sleep and melatonin function, clean air, no radiation, away from procceced foods and additives like msg etc and many more that i can not even remember is the key to longevity.As long as your immune system is functioning well and your natural killer cells TP53 gene and many other cancer inhibitors are good and well, no cancer will ever show his face to you.With that logic we shouldn't eat ANY ammount of protein and we should go straight to be breatharians living only with little water and sunlight exposure cause you like it or not the raise of IGF1 is inevitable i know that raise the IGF1 sky high MAYBE is not the best thing but we are not talking about external hormones and things like this.Stabby raccoon also has a point.And even if you still worry about the consumption of soy... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711174.

it goes beyond food... do nt try to simply things more than necessary... optimal is also about reducing EMF radiation, fixing your circadian clock, reducing artificial light exposure, appropriate exercising, etc....

While potassium iodide can be used to protect your thyroid during acute, severe exposure to radiation, having adequate levels of iodine from safe, natural sources is a more practical approach for long term protection against radiation.

Digital radiography reduces your pet's exposure to radiation, improves image quality, and is more environmentally friendly than tradition x-ray equipment.

Learn more about radiation exposure at LowerTheDose.org

Digital images are acquired more rapidly, utilize no toxic chemicals, and create far less radiation exposure compared with standard film.

The picture from an echocardiogram is much more detailed information about the heart than a radiograph and involves no radiation exposure.

PART 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW The ESSAY «Light and Shadow» discusses... flicker films, Plato's allegory of the cave, H.P. Robinson's allegorical images, working with the absence of light, Tony Conrad's slow emulsions, photography as fairy magic and sun drawings, Adam Fuss's photograms, Hiroshi Sugimoto's feature - length exposures, Cai Guo - Qiang's explosions, light as cancerous radiation, light and shadow in city planning, contrast and lighting in works by Rineke Dijkstra, Jacob Riis, Weegee, Adrienne Salinger, and others, O. Winston Link's environmental light, darkness and light as metaphors for knowledge, morality, and power, pools of light in Expressionism, film noir, and works by Hans Bellmer, Esther Bubley, and Anna Gaskell, Group f / 64, available light in the work of Roy DeCarava, Yinka Shonibare's interpretation of Dorian Gray, public projected images, Indonesian shadow play, Gregory Barsamian's kinetic sculptures, flickering portraits by Christian Boltanski, Kara Walker's silhouettes, and more...

According to the report, more than five million New Yorkers would have to evacuate their homes, depending on the path of the plume, and six million people would require iodine treatments for radiation exposure.

With nuclear providing always - on electricity that will become more cost - effective if a price is placed on heat - trapping carbon dioxide emissions, utilities have found it is now viable to replace turbines or lids that have been worn down by radiation exposure or wear.

«The southern façade, with more sun exposure, has a natural shade: deciduous climbing plants protect it from the sun's direct radiation in the summer and allows the sun to enter in the winter.

Contributing to the longer than normal ice melt season were below normal snowfall, earlier and longer exposure of bare ice (which is darker than snow and absorbs more solar radiation).

And remember, we are talking about an additional radiation exposure in the realm of 0.0002 mSv for those living near a nuclear power plant, versus a background level of 2 to 4 mSv (depending on where you live) due to everything from cosmic rays to ground - derived radon emission to eating bananas (this last one gives you more radiation than the NPP).