Some fifty participants from Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), hospitals, customs and industry have attended a national training course on basic radiation protection and regulation of ...

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Ionizing radiation has a wide range of medical, industrial, military, and commercial applications. However, there are longstanding concerns about its potential to cause harm, even at low doses that ...

The damaging impacts of ionizing radiation on biological tissues are well documented. Since its discovery, mankind has worked to safeguard the public and the army in the case of the employment of ...

Worldwide, regulations limiting doses from the radiation emitted by nuclear fissions and decays are based on the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) model. This hypothesis posits that, irrespective of whether ...