Health Concerns of Exposure to Radiation Everyone in there lifetime will be exposed to radiation. Each and every person living on the planet today is affected by natural sources of radiation. Some people might also have been affected by radiation from nuclear fallout or a nuclear bomb. I will explain to you the concerns and effects in various biological exposures, what radon is and how the measure it, and what causes the damage of radiation. …
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…Instances such as these are only a small portion of radiation people receive in there lives. Of the radiation you absorb in the course of a year 82% of that is from natural sources. The average person receives approximately 300 millrems a year. Ionizing radiation, like X-rays, can effect you in 2 ways. One way is directly which harms sensitive targets like DNA strands. The other way is indirectly in which the radiation creates radiation in free radicals.