Sentences with phrase «term radiation risks»

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.

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We also have tendencies to conform our opinions to those of the groups we identify with, to fear man - made risks more than we fear natural ones, and to believe that events causing dread — the technical term for risks that could result in particularly painful or gruesome deaths, like plane crashes and radiation burns — are inherently more risky than other events.

Articles made comparisons to mundane, low - level forms of radiation; defined the risks as unknowable, given the lack of long - term studies; and largely excluded concerns expressed by experts and residents who challenged the dominant narrative.

At the same time, avoiding radiation and alkylators — which cause widespread cellular damage throughout the body — should reduce the risk of long - term HSCT - related complications, such as organ failure and cancer.

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».

The importance of these types of studies will be to reduce the associated health risks for long - term space exploration and allow for the development of potential countermeasures against space radiation.

They also made national estimates of the cost of unnecessary cardiac stress testing with imaging and the health burden of this testing, in terms of cancer risk due to radiation exposure.

Risks from nuclear power plants can be explained in terms of the extra radiation dose to members of the public being typically one hour per year.

By eating a diet rich in seasonal fruits, veggies, spices, and oils you will consume plenty of the best and freshest sources of antioxidants to help protect yourself from the long - term risks of radiation.

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.

This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen's Around the Verse focused on the game's stamina system, which touches on the character's needs and risks and notifications about them, including «getting drunk, needing to go to the toilet, all the little things that can affect the player temporarily, and then we can expand this to go even to stuff like long - term diseases, depressurization sickness, radiation sickness — all these things that won't be something the player can get rid of instantly.»

Proposals / plans to increase the long - term reliability of the sequestering are met with vigorous political opposition, opposition inspired by, again, mass - media conventional wisdom about radiation and its risks.

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.