Sentences with phrase «radiation risk»

Please discuss radiation risk for this group of individuals with your clinician as additional precautions are recommended.

Generally, no — renters insurance isn't really designed to protect against radiation risks to your own health.

We live in such a high - tech world and kids are exposed to so much now that I don't want my baby monitor to be another source of potential radiation risk.

So even if radiation risks are low, «people are still worried,» he says.

Generally, no — renters insurance isn't really designed to protect against radiation risks to your own health.

In an e-mail exchange at the time, Robert Barish, a health physicist and radiation consultant, sent the following input on radiation risk from forest fires:

The take - home message, says Mothersill, is that bystander effects occur in living organisms, and thus should be taken into account when determining radiation risks in humans and other animals.

In addition, if the melted nuclear fuel proves bad enough — like Chernobyl's lethal mass of molten core known as the «elephant's foot» — it will have to be entombed for a number of years rather than removed, because of radiation risk from what is essentially a cooled shell of ceramic armor surrounding a highly radioactive core that remains hot and is still undergoing radioactive decay.

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 a related editor's note, JAMA Internal Medicine Editor - in - Chief Rita F. Redberg, M.D., M.Sc., writes: «These findings suggest that the current practice of performing a stress test on low - risk patients in the ED is unnecessary and prolongs the length of stay in EDs as well as increases unnecessary medical imaging, with significant associated radiation risk for tests that include nuclear imaging.

The American Heart Association (AHA) suggests that doctors should explain about radiation risks to patients going for heart scans.

«Lessening radiation risk for children with congenital and acquired heart disease: First - of - its - kind position paper provides guidance to medical staff.»

In the US, a new unit has recently been proposed for explaining radiation risks to the public.

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).

A recent study in the journal Radiology concludes that «the Chernobyl accident showed that overestimating radiation risks could be more detrimental than underestimating them.

Even as far away as Mars, one of the instruments aboard the Odyssey spacecraft — an instrument designed to assess radiation risk to humans — was damaged.

Or as marine scientist Ken Buesseler of Woods Hole put it in a scientific paper on the subject published in 2012, «though [cesium] isotopes are elevated 10 to 1,000 [times] over prior levels in waters off Japan, radiation risks due to these radionuclides are below those generally considered harmful to marine animals and human consumers, and even below those from naturally occurring radionuclides.»

However, the researchers found the 900 people with the greatest radiation risk amongst the 220,000 strong second evacuation would have lost just three months» life expectancy by staying in their homes and none should have been asked to leave.

A new map from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) shows the long - term radiation risks to people living near Japan's ailing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

NASA would have to then change its own requirements of what is acceptable radiation risk.

She may be famous, but her accusations that international agencies are knowingly underplaying radiation risks have been repeatedly debunked (most thoroughly by the British environmentalist George Monbiot).

I should provide the missing viewpoints, for instance those who argue that the LNT [«Linear No Threshold» model of radiation risk] underestimates the risk at low doses, and I should provide the reasons that BEIR VII did not accept this view, showing that BEIR VII takes a middle ground.

Or, more to the point, it is hard to reach a verdict even today, because unbiased, comprehensible information on radiation risk is hard to come by.

The project will focus on improving test particle models to produce SEP forecasts and evaluating the associated radiation risk.

Strengths: Affordable, Good range, Clear transmission, Temperature gauge on child unit, Visually appealing, Does not use DECT technology (if you are concerned about any kind of radiation risk).

«Our goal is to focus on approaches that, when properly implemented, will lessen radiation risks for children with heart disease while still allowing the imaging procedures to be effective.»

Another radiation risk when flying is energetic outbursts from the sun, which Earth normally shields people from.

Here's how to reduce your radiation risk.

People can not rebuild their lives until the radiation risks are understood and a plan for reducing them is in place.

The report, drafted by a panel of international experts in radiation risks and public health, concluded that there was no additional cancer risk for the population in most of Japan — even most parts of Fukushima Prefecture — or in neighboring countries.

On an international level, even if all the waste from Fukushima was dumped neat into the Pacific, dilution would eliminate any radiation risks to distant countries like the US, says Simon Boxall of the UK National Oceanography Centre in Southampton.

Although 2000 millirems over 1 year isn't an immediate health threat, it's enough to cause roughly one extra cancer case in 500 young adults and one case in 100 1 - year - olds, says Owen Hoffman, a radiation risk expert with SENES Oak Ridge Inc. in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

The authors emphasize that mammograms are extremely safe and their benefits overwhelmingly exceed the radiation risk.

«Astronauts are already aware of the radiation risks and are currently counseled about cryopreservation of sperm and eggs as a measure to minimize risks due to radiation exposure,» said Joseph Tash, professor of molecular and integrative physiology and urology at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City.

The radiation risks of heart scans are very low when compared to the benefits.

Many patients are ignorant of the radiation risks inherent in certain types of medical scan tests, a survey finds.

He also offered that someone had calculated the radiation risk for his fictional characters and concluded that the person most affected would have had just a 4 percent greater mortality risk.

We welcomed Dr. Francis (Frank) Cucinotta to the show to discuss the radiation risks for astronauts going to Mars and even living on Mars.

Detailed discharge instructions will be provided before and after I - 131 therapy, but radiation risks are minimal once a cat returns home.

The radiation risk to your dog or cat from taking dental radiographs is minimal.

Presumably today's vets either are not taught the radiation risks or they choose to forget it when they routinely blast semen and eggs with radiation greater than is safe for nuclear plant workers!!!

The radiation risk to the patient from taking dental radiographs is minimal.

Finally, for a thorough look at the film's potential value in breaking through the emotion - laden reactions many of us bring to discussions of radiation risk, read the laudatory Scientific American post by David Ropeik, a longtime risk analyst and risk communication consultant.

Despite the public focus on radiation risks, cost has long been the main obstacle to a substantial expansion of nuclear power generation, and will be even more as a result of Japan's still - unfolding effort to secure the wave - ravaged Fukushima Daiichi complex.

[12:21 p.m. Updated I urge you to read Paul Voosen's fine Greenwire article on radiation risk (mis) perceptions.]

Paul Slovic, a widely published and cited risk researcher, agreed with Meadow's assessment, saying, «Communications about the radiation risk in Japan have been poorly done.»