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Technological Hazard >> Radiation hazard
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Nature of radioactivity, types of radiation Interaction radiation with matter |
The nuclear accident at the Chernobyl reactor in 1986 shocked the world. More
than 100,000 people in Belarus, Ukraine Nowadays in some countries more then 80% of electricity produced on Nuclear Power Plants, radioactive materials used in medicine, industry, transport, military and other areas of human activity. more >> We are exposing by natural radiation from space and earth, eating natural radioactive potassium and inhaling radioactive radon. The radiation exposure is the part of our life. What is the level of risk? What is acceptable risk?
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and Russia were evacuated from the contaminated area, about 5 million have been exposed.
In France, Germany, Poland and other European countries radiation protection
measures
have been implemented. 
