Effects of Radiation
With the recent accident in Fukushima Japan, radiation exposure has become a growing concern. Here is information on How Radiation is Spread, it's Risks & Effects.
Click Here to Learn What You Can Do Nutritionally to Protect Yourself Some of the graphics below are shared by courtesy of the Wall Street Journal
- How it Spreads
- How Dangerous is it?
- Low Exposure Effects
- High Exposure Effects
- Resources
How does Radiation Spread?
How Dangerous Radiation is?
Below are some radiation charts to give you an idea of the radiation exposure that we get in our daily lives in comparison to the increased exposure from the Fukushima and Chernobyl accidents.
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To give you an idea of what is a safe radiation dose, we don't recommend pregnant women (in their first three months of pregnancy) to air travel. A regular trip from LA to NY will expose you to 40 micro sieverts (about half the radiation of a chest X-ray or 8 dental X-rays).
No wonder why medical and aviation are the groups receiving the greatest occupational radiation dose in the USA (see chart).
Babies exposed to one x-ray during their first trimester were 12 times more likely to have leukemia than those that were not exposed according to Gabriel Cousin's article.Low Exposure Effects of Radiation:
A blast of radiation often causes immediate, obvious symptoms, but damage from low levels of exposure -- generally 100 mSv or less -- may not appear for decades, if ever.
High Exposure Effects of Radiation:
