This chapter presents models that allow one to estimate the lifetime risk of cancer resulting from any specified dose of ionizing radiation and applies these models to example exposure scenarios for ...

The world around us is a scary place, with a lot of visible and invisible dangers. Some of those invisible dangers are pretty obvious, such as that of an electrical shock from exposed wiring. Some are ...

Atoms are the basic building blocks of all matter. Ionizing radiation can come from unstable (radioactive) atoms or it can be produced by machines. As unstable atoms decay and attempt to become stable ...

Non-ionizing radiation like heat and light from the sun. Ionizing radiation like radiation from natural radioactive materials or cosmic rays. We are continuously exposed to both types of radiation ...