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the level of radiation dose is for procedures you are familiar with, like x-ray examinations, compared

, think of a medical x-ray exposure where the time of exposure is short—the machine is on and off

spectrum is ionizing radiation, i.e., x rays. On the other end is nonionizing radiation. Computers emit

own genetic makeup. We might be exposed from the outside (when we have an x ray) or from the inside

radiation, our whole body is exposed. With a heart x ray, the heart (our chest) is being exposed

. And what about nuclear power and those medical x rays? How can some people believe nuclear power is safe

not want to do x rays because it would raise the daughter’s cancer risk 4 percent. Not only was the mom

effects of x rays. Miscarriage is not likely to occur if the radiation dose is less than 500 mSv

went back to college after starting my first career, as an x-ray technologist, because I found

gamma rays and x rays) emitted from the radioactive materials in the reactor and in the systems