1. Radiation and Human
Health
1. Roentgen Equivalent in Man
2. Radiation Exposure
3. Atomic Bomb
4. Nuclear accident
5. Medical Treatment
Summary
Reference
2. Roentgen Equivalent in Man
● Unit (rem)
● Amount of radiation
● To human
● How much damage
● With symptom
standard
3. Radiation Exosure
● Under 100 (rem) - No immediate sickness
● Above 100 (rem) - Small sickness
nausea, vomit, headache, and,
white blood cells loss
● 300 (rem) -
lack of white blood cells, immune disorder
● 450 (rem) -
Death, No effective treatment
4. Atomic Bomb
● Hiroshima and Nagasaki
● Not direct death in explosion
● The case of a man was
fourteen years old
● Impact on future generations
5. Nuclear accident
● Three mile Island ● Chernobyl
● Herrisburg, ● Still the Soviet Union
Pennsylvania ● Electrical engineering
● Melt down defect
● No one was hurt ● Ten times
Hiroshima's one
6. Medical Treatment
● To cure white blood
cells problem
● Blood transfusions
● Bone-marrow
transplants
7. Summary
● Rem is a standard of the damage to the
human bodies. If we were exposed to
radiation the portion of 450 (rem), we will
be surely die.
