ENSURING THE LOWEST POSSIBLE DOSE

Ensuring the lowest possible dose

Ensuring the Lowest Possible Dose

Introduction

Radiation is in the atmosphere, land, water and even in a person own body. It is called, natural background radiation, and is completely safe. Radiation is measured by biological effectiveness of radiation exposure in units called Millirem. In the United States, people receive and average dose of 6200 m-rem a year. Radiation can be good for you. Ultraviolet (UV), for example, it is important to increase the organism's production of vitamin D is a little sun is good. Enough exposure leads to the tissue harm and genetic damage that ...