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...international awareness of this issue. The old limit values were based on radioactivity, but it is now appreciated that chemical toxicity is more important as a he ...n that of natural uranium. Its main problem is also chemical toxicity, not radioactivity. ...

[[Category:Radioactivity]] Radioactivity, accident, nuclear energy, Fukushima, iodine ...

[[Category:Radioactivity]] Nuclear energy, nuclear accident, Fukushima, radioactivity, iodine ...

...her short-lived; the half life of iodine-131 is only 8 days. Therefore the radioactivity disappears quite rapidly from the environment. An important isotope with a ...e due to the accident during the first year was only 5 % of the background radioactivity. Compared with radon <ref> See the chapter “[[Is there radiation in my ho ...

...100 Bq/m3 of radon in the household air.<ref>Becquerel (Bq) is the unit of radioactivity, meaning disintegrations per second. </ref> This is not a particularly high ...e the Soviet Union, it has been calculated that the additional exposure to radioactivity was 5 % of the total exposure during the first year, thereafter less than o ...

Finland was one of the countries with the highest exposures to radioactivity after the Chernobyl accident. Some parents of exchange students considered ...

...ter, dilution capacity of the sea and the overwhelming quantity of natural radioactivity contained in the seas. Locally and in a shorter term, however, the impacts ...

...ear plants with water cooling systems, a Chernobyl-like fire spreading the radioactivity widely should not occur after an explosion. Furthermore, modern-day nuclear ...

...it can also be applied to model other forms of pollution, including noise, radioactivity and soil pollution. In the context of integrated environmental health imp ...

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