10 amazing facts about radiation and its effects on human

Radiation - a mysterious and deadly dangerous thing. Despite the fact that its effect on our health extensively studied, are still cranks who "do not believe in radioactivity». < Website offers you a fascinating collection of facts and stories devoted to radiation.

1. Entries Maria Sklodowska-Curie h3> Many people know that Madame Curie research led to her untimely death, but few know about the remaining are still the implications of these studies. For example, its record is still so radioactive that they have to be stored in a lead box. To view the preserved personal belongings Curie have to wear special protective clothing and to sign an agreement disclaimer.



This is not surprising, because Maria is literally wearing pieces of polonium, radium and uranium in his pockets. She continued to conduct his experiments with radiation until his death in 1934 due to chronic radiation sickness. Even today, when 90 per cent of its former laboratory were taken inside is still a real mini-Chernobyl. Many of the people living in the neighboring houses, blame the Curie Laboratory in the fact that they developed cancer.

2. Radioactive Man h3> In May 2012, a Connecticut firefighter Mike Apatow, who was driving to work, the police suddenly stopped. What a surprise it was Mike, when it became clear that the reason for stopping is that the machine "fonit." As it turned out, the car was nothing radioactive, in addition to the driver himself ....

Earlier in the day, Mike entered the hospital a small amount of radioactive material for analysis. This number was quite miserable, but it was enough to trigger a radiation detector in a police car.

3. Irradiation nasopharynx h3> In 1948 - 1954, 582 third-graders in the school district of the city of Baltimore were subjected to an experiment known as the "nose test irradiation of radium." Doctors at Johns Hopkins University in the nostrils of children placed metal rods with a sealed capsule with 50 milligrams of radium-226 inside. Parents and children were told that this procedure will reduce the number of lymph tissue in children and impede the development of the adenoids.

But doctors also tested the effects of radiation on the long-term hearing loss, as well as the ability to treat a variety of diseases, including allergies and the common cold. As a result, this has led to a multitude of cases of various types of head and neck cancer.

4. Sterility h3> Even before men landed on the moon, scientists have long studied the effects of space on the body of astronauts. One of the biggest problems has been the impact of radiation on the reproductive system of astronauts, as well as employees of nuclear power plants. Dr. C. Alvin Paulsen and Dr. Carl Heller conducted a study on the dose of radiation that makes men sterile.

They also studied the specific effects of radiation on certain cells of the testes, on the secretion of hormones and the amount of time during which the cells are reproduced in the conditions of radiation.

In connection with this, there was one of the most heinous experiments on the effects of radiation on humans, which involved 67 prisoners from Oregon and Washington 131 prisoners in 1963 - 1973. They were offered as compensation for the possibility of parole, and $ 5 per month. Prisoners were irradiated with 400 rad radiation for 10 minutes, without informing them about the true risks.

5. The mysterious appearance of a radioactive lake h3> When the huge lake suddenly appeared in the middle of arid and desert of Tunisia, people could not help but rejoice in this. Beach Gafsa as it immediately dubbed, it has become a popular attraction for tunisstsev who were groaning under the heat. Although scientists still do not know exactly how the lake was formed, they believe that seismic activity has created a fissure in the rock through which groundwater went outside.

Just two weeks after the lake was discovered, authorities warned that it is not safe to swim, as scientists are concerned about possible radioactive water in the lake due to the fact that a number of mined phosphate.

6. Radium Water h3> In 1920 radioactivity was very fashionable. Eben Byers decided to try Radithor (irradiated radium water, which was advertised as a cure for arthritis, rheumatism, mental diseases, stomach cancer and impotence by its manufacturer - the company Bailey Radium Laboratories, Inc, based, as it turned out, a doctor with a fake diploma hives Bailey).

As a result, a rich industrialist and sportsman drank 1500 bottles of water, until addressed to the doctor with complaints of weight loss, joint pain, headaches and pain in the jaw.

Radiologist shocked when the picture turned out that due to the radium of water jaw and teeth Byers is literally falling apart. In the end, Byers died in 1932 after several operations, during which he removed a large part of the upper and lower jaw with all the teeth. This is only a single example, which led to a great sensation, and in fact radium drinking water, thousands of people ...

7. Goyansky incident h3> September 13, 1987 Roberto dos Santos Alves and Wagner Mota Pereira decided to plunder the partially collapsed Instituto Goiano-de Radioterapia - hospital radiotherapy. When they dismantled the equipment, they suddenly start to tear badly, and there were burns on his hands.

Two days later, Pereira turned to a local hospital, where he was mistakenly diagnosed with stomach upset and sent home. 16 September looting finally got a capsule with a radioactive isotope of cesium-137 (in the form of cesium chloride) Position of radiotherapy.

Using a screwdriver, they struck capsule, which was filled with a substance, a magnificent glowing blue light. Looters strange substance sold to the adjacent landfill, whose owner thought that the luminous material has supernatural powers and invite your friends and family to see the outlandish substance.

Within two weeks of contact with the locals radioactive powder that literally "went from hand to hand" (he gave each other, rubbed their skin, and so on. D.) Dozens of people sick. Four could not be saved.

8. Nuclear scammers h3> In spite of the extensive research of dangerous effects of radiation, there are still people like Galen Winsor, who believe that radiation is relatively harmless.



Having worked in the nuclear industry for 35 years, Windsor has come to the conclusion that all the "mutations arising due to radiation" - complete nonsense. After processing plant nuclear waste in California, who helped design and build Winsor, was closed in 1965, in the settling basin left 170 tons of spent radioactive fuel.

Winsor began to swim in the tank, drinking water and irradiated around the clock to carry tubes and uranium-235 and plutonium. He also became famous lectures on the safety of radiation, which he gave in 77 cities. Winsor said that almost all of his colleagues agreed with him, but were too afraid to speak openly about it.

He also said that the government is trying to hide the harmlessness of the radiation from the public for fear of mass theft of radioactive substances. Winsor died in 2008, but the cause of death remained undetermined.

9. The mysterious burst of radiation h3> Researchers studying tree rings, have found an abnormal burst of radiation that occurred about 1200 years ago. In the atmosphere, then suddenly it became 20 times more than usual, radioactive isotopes of carbon.

The reason for this remains a mystery. Scientists ruled out the possible causes of solar flares and gamma rays from the supernova, as the two supernova explosions occurred in 1006 and 1054, respectively, but it does not leave marks on tree rings. Accordingly, this abnormal event should be significantly stronger. The real reason for this huge burst of radiation is still unknown.

10. Bionerd23 h3> continued the experiments of Galen Winsor was a woman known by the pseudonym Bionerd23. Her videos have done a lot of noise on YouTube, as Bionerd23 no fear of radiation and literally lives in the Chernobyl zone, often doing very strange things.

Bold "Stalker" takes pieces of the radioactive fuel injection makes a radionuclide technetium pours his arms mercury, picks up a piece of found near the reactor uranium, which is infested with ants, and allows the bite itself, as well as radioactive eating apples. Like Windsor, she argues that the radioactivity is not too dangerous in small doses.



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