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Radiation hazards
Terms related to radiation and its hazards.
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Radiation standards
Environment; Radiation hazards
Exposure standards, permissible concentrations, rules for safe handling, regulations for transportation, regulations for industrial control of radiation and control of radioactive material by ...
Radioactive waste
Environment; Radiation hazards
A solid, liquid, or gaseous material from experiment/research operations that is radioactive and for which there is no further use.
Radiation machine
Environment; Radiation hazards
Any device capable of producing radiation except those which produce radiation only from radioactive material.
Radioactivity
Environment; Radiation hazards
The spontaneous emission of radiation, generally alpha particles, beta particles, or gamma rays from the nucleus of an unstable isotope.
Radiation detection instrument
Environment; Radiation hazards
A device that detects and records the characteristics of ionising radiation.
Curie (Ci)
Environment; Radiation hazards
The basic unit used to describe the intensity of radioactivity in a sample of material. The curie is equal to 37 billion disintegrations per second, which is approximately the rate of decay of 1 ...
Radioactive decay
Environment; Radiation hazards
The decrease in the amount of any radioactive material with the passage of time, due to the spontaneous emission from the atomic nuclei of either alpha, beta particles, or gamma rays.
