Sentences with phrase «over radiation risks»

Weaknesses: Wi - Fi needs to be working, More expensive than other monitors, Controversy and concern over radiation risks from wireless networks to babies (see link above).

Not exact matches

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.

In fact, the study finds, over 5,700 additional patients ended up having such procedures — called coronary angiography — during the shortage, exposed them to more risk and radiation.

In reply, chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano told reporters that the situation did not «immediately require such action», although the levels of radiation might pose a risk «over the long term».

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.

The high - energy particles, a type of radiation, vary over time and altitude and pose a health risk to exposed space travelers.

«Surgery with radiation reduces that risk down to 10 % over the course of a lifetime.»

«The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure [per mammogram] increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade's screening.»

«The premenopausal breast is highly sensitive to radiation, each 1 rad exposure increasing breast cancer risk by about 1 percent, with a cumulative 10 percent increased risk for each breast over a decade's screening...»

I not sure why Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting hasn't sought to dissect this exchange, as well, given how the group went after The Times for downplaying the risk from traces of Japanese radiation wafting over North America.

The idea here is to take the discussion beyond pro-nuke and anti-nuke debates over the appropriate «dread - to - risk ratio» for radiation and reactors and toward a more fundamental exploration of what policies and systems make the most sense as humanity's growth spurt crests.

All Levels of Radiation Confirmed to Cause Cancer The National Academies of Science has released an over 700 - page report on the risks from ionizing radiation.

These offer the virtue of simplicity compared with mirrors, but run the risk of getting dispersed over time by solar radiation and the gravitational pull of the sun, moon and planets.