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Radiation Safety


Radiation Safety

Speaker

Stan Jerzak

Grade Level
Grades 11 to 12
Category
Physics & Astronomy
Stan Jerzak

Talk Description:

Every day we are exposed to various types of radiation: microwaves (cellular phones, microwave ovens), ultraviolet (from the sun, tanning salons), X-rays (medical diagnostic devises), gamma rays (nuclear medical diagnostic devices and treatments, airplane flights, radon gas in basements and other sources of nuclear radiation). All these types of radiation are electromagnetic waves with different frequencies and energy. Can some of this radiation cause cancer? Should we be concerned about