Although concern is understandable, the problems in Japan do not mean that we are at a higher risk for exposure to radiation.
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In contrast, exposure to radiation from standard masts showed no significant effect.
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The GAO is giving good marks to those 10-mile response systems, saying that the primary health risk in those zones is exposure to radiation.
Mobile phones meet federal safety limits, but if you're still worried, there are some simple steps you can take to lower your exposure to radiation.
In fact, on Monday the American Heart Association issued an advisory warning that imaging tests, including CT scans, be used cautiously to minimize exposure to radiation.
But we do have a responsibility to take prudent and precautionary measures to educate those Americans who may be endangered by exposure to radiation if the situation deteriorates.
The plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said exposure to radiation levels in the No 3 reactor for four-and-a-half hours would exceed the emergency safety limit for power plant workers.
Prolonged exposure to microwave radiation produced the stress protein, even though there appeared to be no noticeable heating.
To address these outstanding questions, the team will collect samples of rock to date their exposure to cosmic radiation and analyse how glaciers and ice have retreated since the last ice age, around 20, 000 years ago.
Epidemiologic studies over the past 40 years have identified numerous risk factors for breast cancer, including: older age, an early age at menarche, a late age at first full-term birth, not having children, a family history of breast cancer in a first-degree relative, greater height, higher circulating estrogen levels, postmenopausal hormone use, breast density, history of breast biopsies, obesity (for postmenopausal breast cancer), and exposure to ionizing radiation.
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Result: All five shields did virtually nothing to lower a cell phone's radiation exposure to the brain, says Donald Mays, the institute's technical director.
Result: The five shields did virtually nothing to reduce the brain's exposure to cell phone radiation, says Donald Mays, the institute's technical director.
And although tens of thousands of deaths have not materialised, it does predict that 4, 000 people will eventually die from cancer attributable to exposure from radiation leaked from the plant.
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The findings of the study, which examined the subjects during just one 50-minute exposure, raise a key question, the researchers said: What, if any, are the long-term consequences of repeated increased brain activity due to exposure to cell phone radiation?
Additionally, the solar minimum during that time will also limit the radiation exposure to the astronauts.
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"You'd like the radiation exposure to be lower, but it is what it is, " said Dr. Norm Thagard, the first American to fly on the Russian space station Mir, who had no role in the research.
When I inquired about the safety of the operatives and their exposure to the potentially deadly radiation, Nicolai laughed, proudly saying that Russian KGB agents were strong and that the agency was not concerned with the effects of radiation upon the representatives of the State.
Fukushima governor Yuhei Sato has asked Tokyo to set more realistic radiation exposure standards ( Leslie Corrice), even just to resume international standards to which the rest of the world adheres.
While the world waits for more research to be conducted, consumers can take steps to limit cell phone radiation exposure by using the speakerphone or a wired earpiece to make calls.
Sheri Garman lived just long enough to get a bill introduced that would make Idahoans eligible under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act and to see her daughter graduate from high school.
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Customs agents carry devices like basic Geiger counters in their shirt pockets to measure radiation exposure.
Customs agents carry basic Geiger-counter-like devices in their shirt pockets to measure radiation exposure.
"You want to get there as quickly as possible" to reduce radiation exposure, said Don Hassler, scientist in charge of the radiation instrument aboard Curiosity.
That could have led to a loss of water and eventually to the exposure of the spent fuel rods to air, releasing radiation.
"I have seen enough of the results of radiation exposure in animals to worry me, " she said.
Ironically, because past research studying the after-effects of exposure to things like atom bombs and radiation treatments for cancer suggests the most important environmental risk factor for meningiomas is ionising radiation.
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To put the reports coming out of Japan in perspective, the NRC limits occupational radiation exposure for adults working with radioactive material to 50, 000 microsieverts a year.
The father of three admits it was "scary" to read a pamphlet telling him the radiation exposure from each scan, but he was comfortable with the idea that the scans were necessary to monitor cysts associated with his pancreatitis.
Similarly, Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, a professor of radiation oncology and cell biology at NYU and her team lost mouse populations involved in studies of how radiation exposure increases cancer risk as well as how radiation can be targeted to treat tumors.
Findings document that the very young are especially susceptible to adverse effects of radiation exposure, even at relatively low doses.
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