The author is ready to assert that practically none of the readers
of this book will ever happen to deal with large doses of
radiation. But the author, without a shadow of a doubt, claims that
any readers of this book, regardless of gender, age, financial
situation, type of professional activity, and habits, are actually
exposed to low doses of radiation throughout their life. This book
is devoted to the effect of small doses on the body. To understand
the basic effects of radiation on humans, the book contains the
necessary information from an atomic, molecular and nuclear
physics, as well as from biochemistry and biology. Special
attention is paid to the issues that are either not considered or
discussed very briefly in existing literature. Examples include the
ionization of inner atomic shells that play an essential role in
radiological processes, and the questions of transformation of the
energy of ionizing radiation in matter. The benefits of ionizing
radiation to mankind is reflected in a wide range of radiation
technologies used in science, industry, agriculture, culture, art,
forensics, and, what is the most important application, medicine.
Radiation: Fundamentals, Applications, Risks and Safety provides
information on the use of radiation in modern life, its usefulness
and indispensability. Experiments on the effects of small doses on
bacteria, fungi, algae, insects, plants and animals are described.
Human medical experiments are inhuman and ethically flawed.
However, during the familiarity of mankind with ionizing radiation,
a large number of population groups were subject to accumulation,
exposed to radiation at doses of small but exceeding the natural
background radiation. This book analyzes existing, real-life
radiation results from survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Chernobyl and Fukushima, and examines studies of radiation effect
on patients, radiologists, crews of long-distant flights and
astronauts, on miners of uranium copies, on workers of nuclear
industry and on militaries, exposed to ionizing radiation on a
professional basis, and on the population of the various countries
receiving environmental exposure. The author hopes that this book
can mitigate the impact of radiation phobia, which prevails in the
public consciousness over the last half century.
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