The popularity of smartphones continues to grow with the availability of an ever-growing range of applications. The app, Radioactivity Counter, is designed to measure a person's exposure to radiation.

The story of ionizing radiation and radioactivity, and their units, has its origins in the late 1890s, with W. C. Röntgen’s discovery of X-rays (1895), H. Becquerel’s observation of uranium salts ...

Ellen Anderson is the director of radiation safety and international liaison in occupational radiation protection for the Nuclear Energy Institute. She has more than 35 years of experience in ...

What do the Curie couple, Henrie Becquerel, Louis Harold Gray, and Ralf Sievert have in common? These radiation pioneers defined the way we measure ionizing radiation. Pierre and Marie Curie created ...

Eleven patients have already been treated since the island’s new radiation therapy facility was officially opened last month. Another 30 have embarked on their radiation treatment pathway with Bermuda ...

As noted in Theme 2 in the previous chapter, SI units for radiation measurements are finding increasing use in the United States. Many workshop participants said that the exclusive use of SI units is ...