Nuclear Radiation On Humans

Symptoms of radiation sickness can include headaches nausea fevers as well as the possibility of obtaining cancer.

Nuclear waste leak in japan. There are times when the brain can be damaged but this happens only at an exposure that is higher than 5000 remsexposure this high may cause damage to the nerves and blood vessels. If a lethal dose is say 36 sv then our background exposure is a 10000 less than a lethal dose. In november 1986 the congressional subcommittee on energy conservation and power released a report called american nuclear guinea pigs.

Being exposed to high amounts of radiation for an extended period of time will cause humans to experience radiation sickness. It can eject an electron from an atom. The effects of nuclear radiation on different areas of a human body.

The amount of radioactive material being released from the damaged nuclear reactors in japan and the eventual impact it will have on human health are still being determined. The average yearly dose of radiation for a human being in the first world is 360 mrem or 0360 msv. Three decades of radiation experiments on us citizens which included details about human experiments during the manhattan project.

Radiation particularly associated with nuclear medicine and the use of nuclear energy along with x rays is ionizing radiation which means that the radiation has sufficient energy to interact with matter especially the human body and produce ions ie. Biological effects of nuclear radiation. However until the department of energy investigation in 1994 most of the.

Using humans as an example nuclear radiation have very detrimental and adverse effects on human beings.