Sentences with phrase «radiation health»

A spokesperson has confirmed that the university will establish a research initiative with support from radiation health experts at Nagasaki and Hiroshima universities.

«If you do the study and don't find anything, that should be an important message,» says Dale Preston, a biostatistician specializing in radiation health effects at Hirosoft International in Eureka, California.

They don't accept the scientists» view, because they see us as nuclear allies,» says Ken Nollett, director of radiation health at the Fukushima Medical University.

The Nevada State Board of Dental Examiners does not license dental assistants in radiation health, safety, and administration.

For example, the CDA exam requires knowledge about radiation health and safety, infection control and general chairside assisting, while the exam to become a CPFDA requires you to answer questions about topical anesthetics, sealants and teeth polishing.

As a reporter for Science, he previously covered topics including radiation health risks, space policy, bioethics, and genome sequencing.

Iodine - 131, which has a half - life of just 8 days but accumulates quickly in the thyroid gland, is still the major component of the emissions from the nuclear plant and remains the greatest acute radiation health threat to the public, says Richard Wake ford, an epidemiologist at the Dalton Nuclear Institute, University of Manchester, UK.

«Cosmic rays are not a significant exposure risk on the ground,» Eddie Semones, a radiation health officer at NASA, previously told Business Insider.

«It is difficult to say at this point, especially since the crisis is not over,» says Shunichi Yamashita, a radiation health expert at Nagasaki University who is advising the Fukushima prefectural government.

«A thyroid screening program would be expected to save lives by detecting cancers early, whether or not the cancers were caused by radioactivity,» says Timothy Jorgensen, a radiation health physicist at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

But «specialists did not know whether the frequency [in the Fukushima results] was high or low,» says Noboru Takamura, a radiation health scientist at the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute at Nagasaki University in Japan.

In this episode, science writer Karen de Seve shares her adventures in the Bering Sea; journalist Dr. John Miller talks about a radiation health conference; and taxonomist and paleontologist Scott Thomson discusses the late Harriet the tortoise.

«Setting [such radiation limits] for elementary schools is inexcusable,» Toshiso Kosako, a radiation health expert at the University of Tokyo, said on 30 April, when he resigned as an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the nuclear crisis.

The paper does not address what Keith Baverstock, a radiation health expert formerly at the World Health Organization and now at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, considers the most important public health question: What were the external and internal doses in the days and months after the release of the radiation?

The radiation health effects of Chernobyl should be neither denied nor exaggerated.

In a 2008 report, it found that as of 2006, the radiation health effects of Chernobyl were essentially limited to the more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children and adolescents who were exposed at the time of the accident.

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