radioaktivitet

Stråling fremkaldt ved kerneprocesser, eksempelvis atombombesprængning. Der er forskellige typer af radioaktiv stråling: Stråling skabes af partikler, eksempelvis elektroner eller positroner Stråling er elektromagnetisk stråling med enten meget høj frekvens og -energi eller med lavfrekvent energi. Lavradioaktiv stråling stammer fra kunstigt skabte isotoper. Der findes ingen sikker nedre grænse for radioaktiv stråling, som er en af de største kræftfremkaldende faktorer, der kendes. Radioaktiv stråling forårsager strålingsskader i form af hurtig eller langsom død af kræft eller ændringer i arveanlæg (DNA), alt efter strålingens styrke og ofrets beskyttelse og afstand fra kilden.
Radioaktivt nedfald er den forurening, der finder sted, når radioaktivt forurenede støvpartikler vender tilbage til jordoverfladen via regn og sne. Vinde kan føre radioaktive skyer over store afstande, helt til den modsatte side af jordkloden. Omkring 80,000 mennesker som levede i eller blev født i USA i årene mellem 1951 og 2000 vil udvikle kræft som følge af nedfald fra atmosfæriske atomvåbenforsøg, viser en undersøgelse fra the Institute for Energy and Environmental, Research: 'Well over 15,000 of these cases would be fatal. "This report and other official data show that hot spots occurred thousands of miles away from the test sites," said Dr. Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. "The new fallout maps and radiation dose estimates show that nuclear weapons states not only harmed their own people but also people in other countries." Despite this classified reports leaked from the Pentagon of its' "nuclear posture review" show plans to develop a whole new generation of "mini-nukes"! The most recent government study, a fact sheet, and official fallout maps are posted on the IEER web'.
Following the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, concerns were raised about the security of Iraq’s radiological sources. Such sources are used in medicine, industry, and research, but unsecured sources could pose risks of radiation exposure, and terrorists could use them to make “dirty bombs.”
Forsvarsministeriet ikke var klar til at indsamle og sikre radiologiske kilder, da krigen begyndte i marts 2003 og i cirka seks måneder herefter.
Se også: Atomic Bomb Cassuaty Commission ; atomisvinterteorien ; atomkraft : babanflue ; BIER - US National Academy of Sciences Committee to Study the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation ; centi Gray ; demon core ; depleted uranium ; DNA ; dosis ; dosishastighed ; EMP ; EPA Standard of Radiological Safety ; Farallon Island Radioactive Waste Dump, Central California ; fordoblingsdosis ; genmanipulation ; henfald ; heterozygotisk ; International Commision on Radiological Protection ; initialstråling ; ionsiering ; jod ; Johnston Island ; kernevåben ; kromosommutation ; latentsfasen ; mitose ; meiose ; mutagen ; mutantbyrden ; mutationspres ; neutroninduceret område ; US Nuclear Test Personnel Review (NTPR) Program ; nukiller ; overdominans ; peakfase ; US Radiation Exposure Compensation Act 1990 ; radiobiologi ; reduced collateral damage weapons ; selektionspres ; spontan radioaktivitet ; strontium 90 ; stråleskader ; tritium ; the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) zink.

Litteratur

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'Concentrations of the worldwide fallout radionuclides manganese-54, zinc-65, strontium-90, cesium-137, and cerium-praseodymium-144, and naturallyoccurring potassium-40 were measured in 80 lichen species collected near Thule, Greenland, during July-August 1968. Emphasis was placed on 137Cs for detailed comparison of radionuclide distribution within the 6 major and 5 minor lichen communities of the 1,500 km.2 area studied. Mean 137Cs concentrations in major lichen species ranged from 22 picocuries per gram standard dry weight in Stereocaulon paschale to 50 pCi/g. in Cornicularia divergens, with an overall average of 33 pCi/g. Significant differences were noted between species, habitats and world regions.'
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