A nuclear catastrophe such as the nuclear power plant meltdown that occurred at Chernobyl in 1986, or the deployment of an Improvised Nuclear Device (IND) by terrorists, puts civilians at great risk of exposure to extremely dangerous ionizing gamma radiation. Such exposure to high levels of radiation poses significant threats to human health and can [...]
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StemRad, a leading developer of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for ionizing radiation, has recently made a significant contribution to Ukraine’s radiation safety efforts. The company generously donated 20 of its cutting-edge 360 Gamma radiation shields to Ukrainian first-responders stationed in close proximity to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. This donation has been matched by the [...]
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Blocking space radiation is one of the critical concerns for the continued human presence in deep space. Deep space radiation environment consists of low-flux density but highly energetic galactic cosmic rays and the random burst of energetic particles from the Sun, known as solar energetic particles. The combined space radiation environment can cause short-term and [...]
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Rajarshi Pal Chowdhury, PhD The space radiation environment a crewed spacecraft would have to traverse on its way to Mars is a complex hybrid of solar energetic particles, galactic cosmic rays, and trapped radiation. The radiation threat in deep space is mainly comprised of two components: 1) random bursts of energetic particles (primarily protons) generated [...]
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