Reducing exposure as soon and as drastically as possible, Buddemeier says, will also help stave off the long -
term effects of radiation, such as cancer or genetic mutations.
Not exact matches
Comprehensive medical research has never been done to determine the health
effects of long -
term radiation exposure.
Both treatment schedules were similar in
terms of controlling cancer, but doctors reported slightly more mild side
effects in patients getting the shorter
radiation schedule.
As a result, several thousand
of Fukushima's 2 million residents have been thrust into the middle
of a vigorous scientific debate about the health
effects of long -
term exposure to low levels
of radiation.
Their nanoparticles also have potential to protect astronauts from long -
term exposure to
radiation in space and perhaps even slow the
effects of aging, they reported.
Plant workers are being exposed to much higher levels
of radiation than the general population, and will be monitored for long -
term health
effects.
«This is a useful estimate
of the long
term effects of global fall - out on the population
of the US, but it is only part
of the story,» says Dudley Goodhead, a leading
radiation specialist with the Medical Research Council in Harwell, UK.
Researchers found that shorter course
of radiation therapy may provide lesser side
effects for early stage breast cancer patients compared to the long -
term treatments.
The long -
term health
effects of exposure to atomic bomb
radiation on survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not as severe as once thought.
His research concentrates on the long -
term biological
effects of low - dose
radiation exposure.
Tomatoes are rich in the antioxidant lycopene, which has been proven to provide long -
term protection against the
effects of UV
radiation.
New
radiation technologies and techniques have revolutionized treatment
of brain cancers (including pituitary tumors that cause feline acromegaly), allowing for a non-invasive approach to treatment that has few, if any, short
term side
effects.
New
radiation technologies and techniques have revolutionized treatment
of heart base tumors, allowing for a non-invasive approach to treatment, that has few (if any) short
term side
effects (such as a transient cough).
Potential benefits
of stereotactic
radiation therapy include fewer visits to the hospital for
radiation treatments, fewer anesthetic events, and a lower risk
of short -
term side
effects.
The
effect of long -
term travel in interplanetary space is unknown, but scientists estimate an added risk
of between 1 % and 19 % (one estimate is 3.4 %) for men to die
of cancer because
of the
radiation during the journey to Mars and back to Earth.
Spencer + Braswell have shown that over the tropics on a shorter -
term basis, the net overall feedback from clouds with warming is negative; this is largely due to an increase in reflection
of incoming
radiation by increased clouds with a smaller
effect from the reduction
of energy trapping high altitude clouds, which slow down outgoing
radiation by absorbing and re-radiating energy.
In
terms of the cooling
effect of clouds, the immediacy
of feeling that
effect is due to the blocked incoming
radiation from the sun, just as it would be if you stepped beneath a large shade tree.
In
terms of building physics, this increases the probability that condensation might form on the outer surface
of the façade due to the cooling
effect of long - wave
radiation of heat during the night.
When Alarmists say that ENSO's short
term effects must balance to zero over the long run they are doing a priori science using the assumptions
of the «
radiation - only» model.
Yes, «greenhouse» is a poor
term, but is unfortunately established now (means Tyndall
effect, relates to the absorption
of infrared
radiation).
The Fifth Assessment Report
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that, despite global side
effects and long -
term consequences, geoengineering techniques involving solar
radiation management (SRM) should be maintained:
Thus, long -
term variations
of TSI (with account for their direct and secondary, based on feedback
effects, influence) are the main fundamental cause
of climate changes since variations
of the Earth climate is mainly determined by a long -
term imbalance between the energy
of solar
radiation entering the upper layers
of the Earth's atmosphere and the total energy emitted from the Earth back to space.»
[NB: To avoid the vexing issue
of the
effects of the down - welling infrared
radiation, it is easiest to think
of long -
term zero energy imbalance, as measured by satellites at the top
of the atmosphere — after the underlying atmosphere adjusts.
Thus an understanding
of the mechanisms distributing water vapor through the atmosphere and
of water vapor's
effects on atmospheric
radiation and circulation is vital to estimating long -
term changes in climate.
«
Effect» is here defined in
terms of radiative forcing (RF), which is (loosely) the change in the amount
of incoming (to Earth) versus outgoing (to space)
radiation / energy, measured in watts per square metre (w / m2).
The irony is that although he claims to have gotten rid
of «back
radiation» by coming up with a different interpretation
of the
terms in the equation governing radiative transfer between two bodies, he has in fact done nothing to change any numerical result using those equations... including all
of the numerical results that support the existence
of the greenhouse
effect!
The popular explanation
of the greenhouse
effect as the result
of the LW atmospheric absorption
of the surface
radiation and the surface heating by the atmospheric downward
radiation is incorrect, since the involved flux
terms (AA and ED) are always equal.
In simple
terms it seems that the
effect of downwelling LR
radiation is not to heat the ocean directly, but to turn the thin cool skin layer into a thermal insulating barrier and thus increase OHC by reducing heat transmission to the atmosphere.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, because the problem went undetected for so long, patients may be at an increased risk
of long
term effects from
radiation exposure.