Sentences with phrase «what ionizing radiation»

As I understand things (and this is NOT my field at all) there is a robust dispute over how sure we can be about what ionizing radiation dose to human health at small doses.

The news media stigmatize radiation as a much greater risk than it is, based on the biology of what ionizing radiation can do to human health, in many many ways, and it that overall alarmism influences the way people respond to this threat.

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In addition to emitting visible light, the stars also gave off ultraviolet (UV) radiation, which split the neutral hydrogen it encountered into electrons and protons — ionizing it once again, and thereby launching what researchers call the «epoch of reionization.»