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    is monitored, and environmental, such as radon monitoring in buildings. There are several ways of measuring absorbed doses from ionizing radiation. People...
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    Radiation monitoring involves the measurement of radiation dose or radionuclide contamination for reasons related to the assessment or control of exposure...
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  • streaming from monitoring stations, and some international organizations conducted special monitoring operations to assess the state of radiation levels near...
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  • The Radiation Monitoring Center (RMC; traditional Chinese: 輻射偵測中心; simplified Chinese: 辐射侦测中心; pinyin: Fúshè Zhēncè Zhōngxīn) is the agency of the Nuclear...
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    emitted radiation. Contamination monitoring depends entirely upon the correct and appropriate deployment and utilisation of radiation monitoring instruments...
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  • Juno Radiation Vault Non-ionizing radiation Nuclear safety Potassium iodide Radiation monitoring Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 Radiation protection...
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    A radiation dosimeter is a device that measures the dose uptake of external ionizing radiation. It is worn by the person being monitored when used as a...
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    hour, delivering a 50/50 lethal dose of radiation (4.5 grays) within 3 minutes. Since that time, the radiation intensity has declined significantly, and...
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    instrumentation and reactor control and material science, environment and radiation monitoring etc. BARC operates a number of research reactors across the country...
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    accident there, Dyatlov received a radiation dose of 100 rem (1.0 Sv), a dose which typically causes mild radiation sickness, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue...
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    suffering from severe grief and radiation sickness. Spending four months in and around Chernobyl, he received a high dose of radiation. He was assigned to compile...
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  • Counts per minute (category Radiation protection)
    measurement of ionizing radiation is sometimes expressed as being a rate of counts per unit time as registered by a radiation monitoring instrument, for which...
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    Radiation Portal Monitors (RPMs) are passive radiation detection devices used for the screening of individuals, vehicles, cargo or other vectors for detection...
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    data network for radiation monitoring made of 80 stations around the world. According to the information posted by Roshydromet on radiation situation in Severodvinsk...
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  • The World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC) is the central archive of all Baseline Surface Radiation Network measurements. In 1992 the WRMC was founded...
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    the data before monitoring starts. Environmental monitoring includes monitoring of air quality, soils and water quality. Many monitoring programmes are...
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    A nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "an event that has led to significant consequences to...
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    (shielding, holdup, etc.) Environmental assessment, radiation monitoring and radon evaluation Operational radiation protection/health physics Particle accelerator...
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    as identified by the National Commission for Radiation Protection of Ukraine. Responsibility for monitoring and coordination of activities in the Exclusion...
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    effects. The maximum accumulated dose of 3.72 R was received by a radiation safety monitor. The cleanup was hampered by two significant factors: the unexpected...
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    Aleksandr Akimov (category Deaths by acute radiation syndrome)
    symptoms of acute radiation syndrome and were sent to the infirmary. Akimov was exposed during his work to a lethal dose of 15-20 Gy of radiation.[page needed]...
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    and Measurement) is the gamma radiation monitoring network of the Swiss National Emergency Operations Center. The monitoring network is complemented by the...
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    Geiger counter (category Ionising radiation detectors)
    detecting and measuring ionizing radiation with the use of a Geiger–Müller tube. It is widely used in applications such as radiation dosimetry, radiological protection...
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  • A monitor unit (MU) is a measure of machine output from a clinical accelerator for radiation therapy such as a linear accelerator or an orthovoltage unit...
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  • Radiation Exposure Monitoring (REM) is a framework developed by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), for utilizing existing technical standards...
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    Fund Friends of Chernobyl's Children State Institution for Radiation Monitoring and Radiation Safety Related topics 2022 Russian capture of Chernobyl Chernobyl:...
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  • The rad is a unit of absorbed radiation dose, defined as 1 rad = 0.01 Gy = 0.01 J/kg. It was originally defined in CGS units in 1953 as the dose causing...
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    Scintillation counter (category Ionising radiation detectors)
    instrument for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation by using the excitation effect of incident radiation on a scintillating material, and detecting the...
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    Beta particle (redirect from Beta radiation)
    A beta particle, also called beta ray or beta radiation (symbol β), is a high-energy, high-speed electron or positron emitted by the radioactive decay...
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    Chernobyl disaster (category Radiation accidents and incidents)
    could have been affected by radiation. 2016 data from a long-term monitoring program showed a decrease in internal radiation exposure of the inhabitants...
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