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Ionizing radiation can bring this about by breaking chemical bonds in atoms and molecules.
Radiation's Effect Depends on Amount Gautam Naik 2011
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Ionizing radiation can cause cell death initially and then cancer later.
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Yes Ionizing radiation can damage our meat bodies, and if we go to space in our meat bodies then we will have to protect them from much worse radiation then that emitted by our engines.
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Ionizing radiation is at present the only known cause of human thyroid cancer.
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The NRC's fact sheet on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation states that, "any amount of radiation may pose some risk for causing cancer and hereditary effect, and that the risk is higher for higher radiation exposures."
Daniel Kessler: Remembering the Three Mile Island Meltdown 2009
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Ionizing radiation such as the kind that comes from nuclear reactions and radioactive substances has enough energy to knock an electron out of an atom's orbit.
Enviroblog: Cell Phone Radiation Series - Part 1: The Science Archives 2009
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What Ionizing Radiation Is. Ionizing radiation is energy that is carried by several types of particles and rays given off by radioactive material, x ray machines, and fuel elements in nuclear reactors.
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Ionizing radiation is not a substance like salt, air, water, or a hazardous chemical that we can eat, breathe, or drink or that can soak through our skin.
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Ionizing radiation can also come from industrially produced radioactive materials (such as iridium-192); nuclear medicine (such as thyroid cancertreatment with iodine-131 and thyroid scans using iodine-125, or bone scans using technetium-99m); biological and medical research using carbon-14, tritium, and phosphorus-32; the nuclear fuel cycle (producing fission products such as cesium-137 and activation products such as cobalt-60); and production and testing of nuclear weapons.
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Ionizing radiation includes alpha particles, beta particles, x rays, and gamma rays.
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