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All radioactive nuclides emit high-energy particles or electromagnetic waves. When this radiation encounters living cells, it can cause heating, break chemical bonds, or ionize molecules. The most serious biological damage results when these radioactive emissions fragment or ionize molecules. For example, α and β particles emitted from nuclear decay reactions possess much higher energies than ordinary chemical bond energies. When these particles strike and penetrate matter, they...

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Correction to: Out‑of‑field effects: lessons learned from partial body exposure

S Pazzaglia¹, M Eidemüller², K Lumniczky³

¹Laboratory of Biomedical Technologies, ENEA CR-Casaccia, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123, Rome, Italy. simonetta.pazzaglia@enea.it.

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