Guide to 'Radiation' section
Increased exposure to ionising radiation can increase the probability of damage to health in the form of, for example, cancer. Sources of ionising radiation include nuclear power plants or radioactive substances in consumer goods, radioactivity in ore handling and radon in the indoor environment.
Index Radiation
- Radiation: introduction
- Radiation level by source, 2000
- Radon concentrations in housing, 1930-2000
- Radiation dose from artificial radioactive substances, 1960-2000
- Radiation dose from emissions of radioactive substances to air by Dutch industry, 2000
- Radioactivity in surface water, 1980-2000
- Radioactivity in consumer goods
- Electromagnetic fields (discussion)
- Exposure of children to the magnetic fields of overhead power lines, 2001
