Radioactivity

The radiation is present from the origin of the universe, about 20 billion years ago, since intervened in the Big Bang: Big Bang. So that the radioactivity existed on our planet long before the appearance of life on it, every living organism contains traces of radioactive substances. But less than a century that mankind discovered this phenomenon by scientists like Henri Becquerel, Wilhelm Roentgen and Marie and Pierre Curie and others. In 1945 we can say that tragically began the "Nuclear Age"…

Although the production of nuclear power there is almost no destructive effect on health, the effects when happen any accident are devastating and can die much more than any other accident. Big problems can emerge until long time of exposure to radioactivity and many diseases can developing such as different kinds of…

hands-on support from her husband Pierre Curie. “Marie and Pierre Curie were dedicated scientists and completely devoted to one another. At first, they worked on separate projects…. Pierre put aside his own work to help Marie with her exploration of radioactivity” (Biography.com). However, the love and support from their spouses came after their journeys of becoming actual scientists. They weren’t always accepted as the great scientists we see them as…

As the world grows more populated and people become more immersed in their modern lives power-generation has become the leading cause of air pollution, and the biggest contributing factor to global warming in the US. Finding a source of clean renewable energy at the lowest cost and lowest impact on the environment has become a very complex mission. Not only is the race for a renewable energy source dire to help save the planet, our current major power source, Coal is slowly but surely running…

Radioactive pollution is affecting our oceans greatly today. There are numerous reasons why radioactivity and radiation are bad for both you and the environment. Radiation consists of several particles, gamma rays, alpha particles, and other elements that can easily penetrate the human body. When they make their way into your body the biological cells which make up your body are damaged and may decompose, cause fatal cancers, and or genetic defects in future offspring. The more radiation one is…

still during imaging. A claustrophobic person may feel some anxiety while being scanned. Normal activities may be resumed after nuclear medicine scan unless the physician tells the otherwise. The small amount of radiotracer in body will lose its radioactivity over time and decays. The radiotracer can also pass out from the body through urine…

The radioactivity affects whatever it touches, if it’s not properly handled. If anyone doesn’t know if something is radioactive that means that it is radiating with a dangerous aura that actually knocks holes in you DNA, which leads to irregular cell division and…

Marie Sklodowska Curie was a Polish chemist who was born on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw. Exceeding all expectations, Curie excelled in and outside of the classroom by achieving a masters degree in physics and math. Curie was also the only woman of her time to win the Nobel Peace Prize twice in chemistry and in physics. Having one of the world’s most brilliant minds, Marie Curie discovered the field of atomic physics, polonium, leading to the development of the atom bomb, and radium, which paved…

Atomic bombs and nuclear weapons generally are very disputable and controversial issue. Almost 64 years ago, on 6th and 9th of August, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ostensibly, this use can be justified as a direct means to the end of the World War II in Asia-Pacific region. Up to now, Americans consider this act defensible. Truman, who was president of the USA in years 1945-1953 has always relentlessly vendicated his radical and controversial step in August 1945.…

receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908, and being knighted in 1914 (Ernest Rutherford). Ernest Rutherford was known as the “Father of the Nuclear Age” (Ernest Rutherford A&E Television Network). He was called this because of his study of radioactivity, later leading to the exploration of nuclear physics (Ernest Rutherford A&E Television Network). A pioneer of nuclear physics and the first to split the atom, Earnest Rutherford was a brilliant scientist and majorly contributed to today’s…