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Originally posted by blackcat99
Wow very good find - wonder if they 'rescued' the dogs?
Originally posted by Sabel
wow, thats cool. But even at 100micro siverts/h you need to stay there for 10h to get nausea from radiation poisoning. But I guess its not that healthy in the long run with increased cancer risk and such... though its really cool to see how exponantially the radiation is increasing the closer they get. From 10uS/h to 100uS/h in a couple of hundred meters.
Biological effect begins with the ionization of atoms. The mechanism by which radiation causes damage to human tissue, or any other material, is by ionization of atoms in the material. Ionizing radiation absorbed by human tissue has enough energy to remove electrons from the atoms that make up molecules of the tissue. When the electron that was shared by the two atoms to form a molecular bond is dislodged by ionizing radiation, the bond is broken and thus, the molecule falls apart. This is a basic model for understanding radiation damage.
Originally posted by muzzleflash
Originally posted by Sabel
wow, thats cool. But even at 100micro siverts/h you need to stay there for 10h to get nausea from radiation poisoning. But I guess its not that healthy in the long run with increased cancer risk and such... though its really cool to see how exponantially the radiation is increasing the closer they get. From 10uS/h to 100uS/h in a couple of hundred meters.
Wrong actually.
Any dose is bad. Here is why. Please read.
from JeffersonLab.org
Biological effect begins with the ionization of atoms. The mechanism by which radiation causes damage to human tissue, or any other material, is by ionization of atoms in the material. Ionizing radiation absorbed by human tissue has enough energy to remove electrons from the atoms that make up molecules of the tissue. When the electron that was shared by the two atoms to form a molecular bond is dislodged by ionizing radiation, the bond is broken and thus, the molecule falls apart. This is a basic model for understanding radiation damage.
Even small amounts of radiation can cause damage to organic material.
Radiation causes the molecular bonds between atoms to break.
Picture your super complex and long DNA strand.
Now picture a bunch of radiation bombarding it.
Now picture your DNA strand melt.
Have a nice day.