Radiation

1. Article
#2
Radiation
Speaking
and
Wri-ng
-­‐3
Dr.
Roy
S1180042
Ryoko
Aoki

2. What
is
rem?
• The
unit
used
to
measure
radia/on
dosage
• Amount
of
rems
determine
how
much
harm
a
person
suffers.

3. Effects
of
Radiation
• Nausea
• Vomi/ng
• Headache
• Some
loss
of
white
blood
cells
• Temporary
hair
loss
• Loss
of
white
blood
cells
• Reduces
produc/on
of
blood
platelets
• Fever
• Diarrhea

4. Fallout
• Mother’s
child
exposed
to
radia/on
become
serious
disease.
• Leukemia,
lung
cancer,
thyroid
cancer,
breast
cancer,
and
cancers
of
other
organs.

5. Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki
• Many
people
died
not
directly
from
the
explosion.
• They
died
from
the
radia/on
released
as
a
result
of
the
explosion.

6. Three
Mile
Island
• Blocked
the
flow
of
water
in
the
main
feedwater
system
of
a
reactor.
• Tore
the
reactor
apart.
• Radioac/ve
water
flowed
into
an
auxiliary
building,
where
it
pooled
on
the
floor.
• Radioac/ve
gas
was
released
into
the
atmosphere.
• Cost
lots
of
money
and
/me,
no
one
was
hurt.

7. Chernobyl
• The
accident
was
a
fatal
combina/on
of
ignorance
and
complacency.
• Chernobyl
release
polluted
the
countryside
much
more
than
ten
Hiroshimas
would
have
done.
• Many
people
died
from
the
explosion
and
even
more
from
the
effects
of
the
radia/on
later.
• Today,
people
are
dying
from
the
radia/on
caused
by
the
accident.

8. Conclusion
• No
effec-ve
medical
treatment
available
for
poten-ally
fatal
radia-on
does.
• It
is
necessary
to
build
the
nuclear
reactor
of
the
design
in
which
these
accidents
do
not
happens.