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3 unusual facts about Radiation


Photo-Carnot engine

Radiation is the working fluid, and the piston is driven by radiation pressure.

Radiation

Infrared may be detected at a distance from the radiating objects by "feel." Infrared sensing snakes can detect and focus infrared by use of a pinhole lens in their heads.

Selective internal radiation therapy

The treatment involves injecting tiny microspheres of radioactive material into the arteries that supply the tumor.


2011 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

Due to concerns with possible radiation an independent survey of Motegi and the surrounding area was commissioned by FIM and Dorna Sports.

328th Armament Systems Wing

The wing performed cradle-to-grave management of air dominance weapon system programs, including the AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM), AIM-9X Follow-on Sidewinder, High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) Targeting System, Miniature Air Launched Decoy, and aerial target systems.

BARREL

Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) is a NASA mission operated out of Dartmouth College that works with the Van Allen Probes mission (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission).

Betatron

The Radiation Center, the first private medical center to treat cancer patients with a betatron, was opened by Dr. O. Arthur Stiennon in a suburb of Madison, Wisconsin in the late 1950s.

Bouygues Telecom

Residents in the commune Charbonnières in the Rhône department had sued the company claiming adverse health effects from the radiation emitted by the 19 meter tall antenna.

Braconidae

It underwent extensive diversification from mid or late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic, correlating with the radiation of flowering plants and associated herbivores, the main hosts of braconids.

Caesium-137

Perhaps the best-known case is the Goiânia accident of 1987, in which an improperly-disposed-of radiation therapy system from an abandoned clinic in the city of Goiânia, Brazil, was scavenged from a junkyard, and the glowing caesium salt sold to curious, uneducated buyers.

Charles Panati

As a radiation health physicist, Panati was deeply concerned about the accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in March 1979.

Charles Steen

Steen could not afford the standard radiation-detecting equipment used by uranium prospectors - the Geiger counter.

DPF

Dense plasma focus, a plasma machine that produces, by electromagnetic acceleration and compression, short-lived plasma that is so hot and dense that it becomes a copious multi-radiation source

Endospore

The core contains the spore chromosomal DNA which is encased in chromatin-like proteins known as SASPs (small acid-soluble spore proteins), that protect the spore DNA from UV radiation and heat.

Entolimod

for dual indications under the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) Animal Efficacy Rule as a pivotal-stage radiation countermeasure, and under the FDA’s traditional drug approval pathway as a targeted cancer treatment.

The FDA granted entolimod both Fast Track and Orphan Drug status for reducing the risk of death following a potentially lethal dose of total body irradiation during or after a radiation disaster.

Eye burns

There is physical trauma like UV exposure Photokeratitis, thermic trauma by means of infrared ray leading to infrared cataract and more severe alteration of the eye by heat deriving from hot steam liquid metals.

Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget

The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) is an instrument aboard EUMETSAT's Meteosat Second Generation geostationary satellites designed to make accurate measurements of the Earth Radiation Budget.

Glen Rebka

In 1960 Robert Pound carried out together with his assistant Glen Rebka an experiment, the Pound-Rebka experiment, using the Mössbauer effect to measure the gravitational redshift of the radiation from a gamma source in the gravitation field of planet Earth.

H. Donald Wilson

He also helped Cousins raise money to bring over the Hiroshima Maidens, Japanese women who needed reconstructive surgery as a result of nuclear radiation poisoning and the Lavenbruck Maidens, women who had been used as the subject of medical experimentation by the Nazis.

Hot mirror

Some early digital cameras designed for visible light capture, such as the Associated Press NC2000 and Nikon Coolpix 950, were unusually sensitive to infrared radiation, and tended to produce colours that were contaminated with infrared.

Jaynes–Cummings model

This model was originally proposed in 1963 by Edwin Jaynes and Fred Cummings in order to study the relationship between the quantum theory of radiation and the semi-classical theory in describing the phenomenon of spontaneous emission.

Louis Gray

Louis Harold Gray - British radiation physicist after whom the SI unit, the Gray, was named

Minesh Mehta

One was a young physicist from Canada, T Rockwell Mackie, who grew up in the town where Cobalt therapy, a form of radiation treatment, was developed; Minesh Mehta was the other.

Multidata Systems International

A software product of the company was involved in an accidental overexposure of patients in Panama in 2001 when the treatment planning software RTP/2 (vers. 2.11, 1991) reportedly contributed to 28 patients receiving excessive amounts of radiation at the Instituto Oncologico Nacional in Panama City.

NBC suit

In the novel Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky people visiting the irradiated surface of Moscow wear black radiation suits with unique clear faced gas masks.

Nukla

He can will himself into an invisible immaterial state and in said phantom form fire destructive bolts of pure "radiation-free" atomic energy from his hands and fly at the speed of light as well as quickly heal himself of any injuries received in his mortal flesh and blood form.

Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight

Odin was once a planet that faced destruction by the radiation of its expanding sun, Canopus.

Operation Castle

Although the atolls were evacuated soon after the test, 239 Marshallese on the Utirik, Rongelap, and Ailinginae Atolls were subjected to significant levels of radiation.

Paleogene

Birds, which were already well established by the end of the Cretaceous, also experienced an adaptive radiation as they took over the skies left empty by the now extinct Pterosaurs.

Phenytoin

In the 2013 science fiction film Elysium, the protagonist (played by Matt Damon) takes Miporol, a fictional brand name for diphenylhydantoin, after having been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.

Precision viticulture

Other Environmental Sensors monitor important biophysical factors such as solar radiation, soil moisture, and temperature regimes.

Predeal

The town has been certified as a climate resort by government decree (H.G. 226/1992) due to the strongly ionized air rich in ultraviolet radiation and the low atmospheric pressure.

Radiation protection

Society for Radiological Protection - The principal UK body concerned with promoting the science and practice of radiation protection.

Radiation treatment planning

Treatment simulations are used to plan the geometric, radiological, and dosimetric aspects of the therapy using radiation transport simulations and optimization.

Radinskya

With its enigmatic position at the base of this radiation, Radinskya is a member of the Chinese Paleocene fauna which includes primitive tethytheres such as Minchenella and the oldest arsinoitheres; it shares many characters with perissodactyls and some with phenacolophids, but is to primitive to be called either a horse, a rhino, or a tapir.

Radiofrequency coil

This signal consists of true EM radiation (radio waves), and these leave the subject as RF radiation, but they are of such low power as to also not cause appreciable RF interference that can be picked up by nearby radio tuners (in addition, MRI scanners are generally situated in metal mesh lined rooms which act as Faraday cages.)

Rico Dredd

Joe suspected that this was the result of exposure to radiation when Rico was injured on a training mission in the Cursed Earth.

Rudolf Mössbauer

His fame grew immensely in 1960 when Robert Pound and Glen Rebka used this effect to prove the red shift of gamma radiation in the gravitational field of the Earth; this Pound–Rebka experiment was one of the first experimental precision tests of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Sieverts

Sievert (Sv), the SI unit of equivalent absorbed radiation dose, named for Rolf Sievert

Singapore Synchrotron Light Source

Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) is a synchrotron radiation facility located on Kent Ridge campus of the National University of Singapore.

The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism

The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism is a 2004 book by Charles D. Ferguson and William C. Potter (with Amy Sands, Leonard S. Spector and Fred L. Wehling) which explores the motivations and capabilities of terrorist organizations to carry out significant attacks using stolen nuclear weapons, to construct and detonate crude nuclear weapons, to release radiation by attacking or sabotaging nuclear facilities, and to build and use radiological weapons or "dirty bombs."

The Gleam

Recorded by Doug Williams at Electromagnetic Radiation Recorders, shortly after the completion of Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions.

Tubuai Rail

The species was named after David Steadman in recognition of his contributions to Pacific paleo-ornithology and the understanding of the radiation of Gallirallus-like rails.

Van Allen Range

He conducted ionospheric research in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and is the discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts.

Vatican Radio lawsuit

Since this part of Rome is not under Italian jurisdiction, these transmitters are not subject to the Italian laws that limit the radiation that a radio station can emit.

Wagtail

The African Pied Wagtail (and possibly the Mekong Wagtail) diverged prior to the massive radiation of the white-bellied black-throated and most yellow-bellied forms, all of which took place during the late Piacenzian (early Late Pliocene), c.

Walter Heitler

At Dublin, Heitler's work with H. W. Peng on radiation damping theory and the meson scattering process resulted in the Heitler-Peng integral equation.

Wendie Jo Sperber

She revealed in April of 2002, though, that the cancer had reappeared and spread throughout her body, and by mid-2004 it had reached Stage 4 at which time she had also undergone experimental brain radiation therapy.

WHQT

For many years they enjoyed a grandfathered license which allowed them to transmit with an effective radiated power of 160,000 watts but with an antenna center of radiation under sixty meters (200 feet) height above average terrain.

Why is the sky blue?

Diffuse sky radiation solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface after Rayleigh scattering

Wien's law

Wien approximation, an equation used to describe the short-wavelength (high frequency) spectrum of thermal radiation


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