Following a major contamination incident, all potential pathways of internal exposure should be considered.
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The parents had been concerned about internal exposure.
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Internal exposure of the public is controlled by regulatory limits on the radioactive content of food and water.
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Internal exposure to Sr-90 is linked to bone cancer, cancer of the soft tissue near the bone, and leukemia.
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Exposures from medical procedures were external, however, and those figures don't help scientists calculate the risks of the internal exposure that resulted from nuclear fallout.
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The primary dangers associated with beta radiation are internal exposure from ingested fallout particles and beta burns from fallout particles no more than a few days old.
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The ICRP states " For internal exposure, committed effective doses are generally determined from an assessment of the intakes of radionuclides from bioassay measurements or other quantities.
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Prussian blue, or " Radiogardase ", is stockpiled in the US, along with potassium iodide and DPTA as pharmaceuticals useful in treating internal exposure to harmful radioisotopes in fallout.
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In addition to this " internal exposure ", humans also receive " external exposure " from radioactive materials that remain outside the body and from cosmic radiation from space.
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Internal exposures tend to cause cancer in the organs where the radioactive material concentrates, so that radon predominantly causes lung cancer, iodine-131 is most likely to cause thyroid cancer, etc.
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