How does radiation effect plants?
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radiation effect every living organism including plants because the radiation excites the atoms composing our celluls and dna chains and provoques mutation and makes celluls cancerigous
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sun is some thing which solely effect that
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Water equalizes the pressure between the outside and the inside of the cell wall, so it doesn't become damaged.  It also is the transport medium for nutrients coming in, and waste exiting.
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radiation causes the cells of the body to grow abnormally, the thing is, we can tolerate quite a bit of it before it damages us. \n\nhttp://www.umm.edu/ency/article/000026.htm
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Sunlight helps to to metabolize vitamin D, warms the planet to a pleasant temperature conducive to life, and provides a direct energy source for solar power, and is a great source of energy for chloroplasts, which happen to be how plants excrete oxygen that we breathe.  Basically, we would be dead without the sun.\n\nSunlight also has ultraviolet light and various other radiations, most of which are currently blocked by our ozone layer.  Sticking with ultraviolet light, sunlight can damage the skin, leading to skin cancer.  Too much exposure can result in dehydration and death.  Increased amounts of ultraviolet light may also interrupt the chloroplast processes in plants, such that too much will cause plants to die instead of producing oxygen.
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Don't worry, Uranium plants in the U.S. emit less radiation than coal plants because of the strict safety regulations set upon them. If you are unsure, you can ask the mining company to provide a detailed account of measurements of the radioactive emissions by the plant.
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first of all lets define radiation.\nradiation is the emission of waves or wave travel.\na wave comprises of wave lenths\n1 wave lenth is 1 crest and 1 trough\nwhat are the different types of waves\nthere are two main types\nfirst is the non-ionizing radiation or harmless\nand second is the ionizing radiation or harmful\nplease refer to an electromagnetic spectrum in where it is indicated in detail\nfrom non-ionizing:\nlong waves, radio waves,microwaves, infra-red, visible/white light\n to ionizing:\nUV, x-rays and gamma rays.\nThree main types of ionizing radiation\n1. alpha rays - highly ionizing weakly penetrating\n2. beta rays - med ionizing med penetrating\n3. gamma rays/x-rays - highly penetrating weakly ionizing\n\nso radiation from a blast could be light, and heat but if you use a nuclear bomb there will be ionizing radiation that will affect people and living things.\n\nthe difference between a bomb and a nuclear bomb or dirty bomb is that inside a bomb there are/is radioactive sources like Po, U, Fe and other radioactive sources.\n\nhow does it harm us. you cannot feel ionizing radiation. no human senses can detect them. only specialized equipment do like a geiger counter. ionizing radiation can alter DNA. so if you are affected by large dose, some of your cells will die and alter your DNA.\n\nprotect..?\n\nby using the Time Distance and Shielding concept\nless time you are expose less effect on your body\nradiation reduces its effect by 1/4 every 1 meter\nyou can shield yourself to radiation by knowing what radiatioactive source you are being exposed.\nalpha ray can be blocked by our own dead layer of the skin or paper\nbeta could be blocked by much denser material like book, water, aluminum, glass\ngamma could be blocked by a thick concrete or lead\n\nPM is you have more question
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Pros: Alpha radiation sources can be used as power sources in things like pace makers and I think they are also used in smoke detectors. Also it can be used to kill cancer cells.\n\nCons: radiation can kill people or make them very ill. Can cause people to loose hair and become infertile.
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I read an article about this a while ago. While some radiation will be let through, it will not be devastating. The poles have switched a few times and it has not killed of mass numbers of humans, animals, or plants.
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Blast and thermal effects occur to some extent in all types of explosions, whether conventional or nuclear. The release of ionizing radiation, however, is a phenomenon unique to nuclear explosions and is an additional casualty producing mechanism superimposed on blast and thermal effects. This radiation is basically of two kinds, electromagnetic and particulate, and is emitted not only at the time of detonation (initial radiation) but also for long periods of time afterward (residual radiation). Initial or prompt nuclear radiation is that ionizing radiation emitted within the first minute after detonation and results almost entirely from the nuclear processes occurring at detonation. Residual radiation is defined as that radiation which is emitted later than 1 minute after detonation and arises principally from the decay of radioisotopes produced during the explosion. \n\nAbout 5% of the energy released in a nuclear air burst is transmitted in the form of initial neutron and gamma radiation. The neutrons result almost exclusively from the energy producing fission and fusion reactions, while the initial gamma radiation includes that arising from these reactions as well as that resulting from the decay of short-lived fission products. The intensity of initial nuclear radiation decreases rapidly with distance from the point of burst due to the spread of radiation over a larger area as it travels away from the explosion, and to absorption, scattering, and capture by the atmosphere. The character of the radiation received at a given location also varies with distance from the explosion. Near the point of the explosion, the neutron intensity is greater than the gamma intensity, but with increasing distance the neutron-gamma ratio decreases. Ultimately, the neutron component of initial radiation becomes negligible in comparison with the gamma component. The range for significant levels of initial radiation does not increase markedly with weapon yield and, as a result, the initial radiation becomes less of a hazard with increasing yield. With larger weapons, above 50 Kt, blast and thermal effects are so much greater in importance that prompt radiation effects can be ignored. \n\nBlast and thermal injuries in many cases will far outnumber radiation injuries. However, radiation effects are considerably more complex and varied than are blast or thermal effects. A wide range of biological changes may follow the irradiation of an animal, ranging from rapid death following high doses of penetrating whole-body radiation to an essentially normal life for a variable period of time until the development of delayed radiation effects, in a portion of the exposed population, following low dose exposures. When comparing the effects of radiation, that dose which is lethal to 50% of a given population is a very useful parameter. The term is usually defined for a specific time, being limited, generally, to studies of acute lethality. The common time periods used are 30 days or less for most small laboratory animals and to 60 days for large animals and humans. On occasion, when a specific type of death is being studied, the time period used will be shorter. The specified period of time is indicated by a second number in the subscript; LD50/30 and LD50/5 indicate 50% mortalitywithin 30 days and 5 days, respectively. The LD50 is a median,
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yeah plants can get cancer. i dont think it is as big of an issue for them though, because they dont have critical organs like brain, liver etc that the cancer can infiltrate- just stems and leaves, and the cancer would have to be pretty extensive to kill them off
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By the ionization of the cells, for one. Radiation strips electrons from atoms making up the molecular machinery of the cell; as you may realize, this can't be good. Structures lose form/lose function.
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Things are only affected if they are charge particles in electric fields. I don't think there are any charge particles in plants significant enough for an electric field to cause a change in it.
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Radiation from thousands of nuclear bomb tests.  If you wait until night the green ones will glow.  Or maybe they're just different colors like black people and white people.
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solar radiation - UV rays are damaging to the DNA of skin cells and can result in cancer
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If you are talking about the effects of radioactive material (alpha, beta and gamma particles) on the human body then in layman's terms prolonged exposure would lead to burns, radioactive sickness - the bodies organs deteriorate and collapse, hair and teeth start to fall out and various cancers and other serious heavy metal / radioactivity induced conditions develop, etc.
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Keep in mind, I'm not a nuclear Engineer or a nuclear specialist.  I haven't studied nuclear physics since college 10 years ago.\n\nRadiation in any form is dangerous.  It is just whether the benfits outweigh the potential ill side effects.\n\nRadiation is actually caused by the decay of a radiactive subtance.  Radiation takes three forms, alpha, beta, and gamma radiation.\n\nAlpha radiation consists of 2 protons and 2 neutrons.  Alpha particles are slow and can not penetrate much.  This type of radiation can be stopped by something as thin as a sheet of paper or clothing.\n\nBeta radiation is actually an electron.  While beta radiation penetrates more than alpha radiation, it is still weak.  It can be stopped by thin metals, such as a sheet of foil.\nGamma radiation is the radiation that is very deadly.  Gamma radiation is actually a wave and not a particle.  It can only be stopped by thick layers of dirt, concrete, or lead.\n\nDuring nuclear fallout, a person doesn’t become radioactive per se.  What happens is the dust and particles collected on their clothing emits radiation.  You may have heard of radiation suits.  Radiation suits do not stop radiation, rather their purpose is to prevent radioactive particles from becoming embedded in hair, skin, or clothing.  Once the person gets away from the contaminated area, they wash the suit, disrobe, and (my guess) run like hell.\n\nRadiation sickness is caused by an overdose of radiation.  The danger of radiation is that it kills the cells of any living thing that it strikes.  This can be beneficial in a medical setting like when a radiation beam is used to kill cancer cells in a patient.  However, when a person is exposed to uncontrolled radiation over a prolonged period of time, many of the cells in their body are killed.  Just like anything else, dead things begin to decay and rot.  Radiation sickness is essentially the body becoming poisoned and weak from the loss of cells and decaying cells in their body.\n\nWithout adequate protection during radiation fallout, radioactive particles become ingested, inhaled, and embedded on the skin.  \n\nI hope this helps a little