Radiation 101: What It Is, Why It's Dangerous

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  • Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
  • As radiation dangers related to Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant continue to make national headlines, many people are left wondering exactly what radiation is --and how exposure to it, in high doses, impacts human health. To learn more, we tapped radiation biologist Dr. Jacqueline Williams for a brief physics lesson.

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  • @spookybruv421
    @spookybruv421 4 роки тому +146

    She explained it to us like we are all dumb assess.... which we are.

  • @royrice8597
    @royrice8597 5 років тому +139

    Alpha= “A”ll right. Beta = “B”e careful. Gamma and X-ray= “G”et away and “X”it immediately.!! A good rule of thumb!

  • @John14-6...
    @John14-6... 3 роки тому +53

    Finally! Very well explained. It only took about an hour of watching different UA-cam videos to get an overall simplified explanation for me to put it all together. Most videos give a good explanation on one area but leave something out

    • @ceezb5629
      @ceezb5629 Рік тому +1

      Exactly. I think most people try to overdramatize to get views.
      Radiation is already scary enough of a subject, no need to dramatize.
      This doctor or scientist did a phenomenal job.

  • @factorvracing
    @factorvracing 6 місяців тому +9

    I built special weapons from 1971-1974 in the Army and have radiation burns and sores from radiation exposure. My DNA was changed. The military does not recognize effects from radiation when I served so I am trying to become the first to change their rules.

  • @jasondewitt9660
    @jasondewitt9660 8 років тому +51

    The first electricity detective....Sherlock Ohms

  • @rockforlight
    @rockforlight 5 років тому +63

    Thank you for this. It was difficult to find a video on this subject which features someone who is educated in the subject. So many clickbait "armchair" science videos on UA-cam.

    • @ceezb5629
      @ceezb5629 Рік тому

      Exactly. I think most people try to overdramatize to get views.
      Radiation is already scary enough of a subject, no need to dramatize.
      This doctor or scientist did a phenomenal job.

    • @grzesiek1x
      @grzesiek1x Рік тому

      exactly!

  • @kellyrish5092
    @kellyrish5092 Рік тому +12

    THANK YOU! This actually makes so much sense and helps me understand. Very very helpful

  • @VegetaUnv7
    @VegetaUnv7 2 роки тому +9

    Haha im glad im not the only one. Every video of trying to find out what radiation is would turn into a physics lesson .

  • @jonnybravo4322
    @jonnybravo4322 4 роки тому +11

    Here because of the HBO show “chernoble”

    • @mdb1010
      @mdb1010 3 роки тому +3

      @@ghostlylover99123 It's you're*, don't give up either. You're almost there! Until then I'd hold off on trying to correct others spelling lol.

  • @brettd2318
    @brettd2318 5 років тому +11

    Really nicely explained, cheers.

  • @royrice8597
    @royrice8597 5 років тому +14

    Radioactive cigarettes, Now I know smoking is hazardous to your health and why I don’t smoke!!

    • @nothing2see315
      @nothing2see315 4 роки тому +4

      It's not there naturally

    • @samuele8361
      @samuele8361 9 місяців тому

      believe it or not the polonium 210 that's inside a cigarette is likely not what is going to cause cancer. There's plenty of more effective carcinogens inside tobacco.

  • @rajinikanthrajini3247
    @rajinikanthrajini3247 4 роки тому +3

    Clear madam. Thanks. Straight to the point.

  • @parabellum4622
    @parabellum4622 2 місяці тому

    Wow... I'm learning radiation and a physics from a Doctor. I'm loving this. My brain is open.

  • @Kereyuli
    @Kereyuli 11 років тому +5

    thanks very knowledable

  • @PlanetImo
    @PlanetImo 3 роки тому +1

    Great! Thanks.

  • @user-yf1kg3op3g
    @user-yf1kg3op3g 2 роки тому

    Great and simple explanation

  • @kingrixt
    @kingrixt Рік тому +1

    Good video

  • @mrpsd590
    @mrpsd590 5 років тому +8

    6👎🏼 are from smokers

  • @nrajoli1
    @nrajoli1 4 роки тому +2

    Thank to you Dr. Williams.

  • @skipsassy1
    @skipsassy1 5 років тому +8

    tell that to the Chernobyl graphite radiation that kills in minutes a slow agonizing death.....

    • @Bohnenesser
      @Bohnenesser 4 роки тому

      Dyatlov: "ur delusional"

    • @samuele8361
      @samuele8361 9 місяців тому

      There's such a thing known as "dose". Drinking half a litre of water is perfectly fine, drinking 40 litres of water at the same time is probably going to kill. The same principle applies to radiations, below 100mSv per year there's evidence on negative impacts on human health. Ofc chernobyl workers and firemen received a dose much greater than that.

  • @zoecanizares1007
    @zoecanizares1007 5 місяців тому

    How come positive energy does damage to your cells?

  • @paulanderson79
    @paulanderson79 4 роки тому +1

    *1:44 for molecule read atom.

  • @zypheralexander837
    @zypheralexander837 8 місяців тому +1

    What about fire alarm systems in close proximity.people are getting sick all around us

  • @filteredview9302
    @filteredview9302 2 роки тому +2

    Her explanation in the end is a bit scuffed, and it probably isn't easy for anyone new to radiation to understand what she said correctly.
    The title would be better if it were named "Radiation 101: What It Is, Why It isn't Dangerous"
    Because radiation is only dangerous when in very high amounts... yes radiation is dangerous but so is water. if you drink 10 liters of water you die, if your exposed to 0.1mSv with x-rays in 2 seconds. (Ct scan) you're fine. which are a ton of particles btw! 0.5mSV/s is the equivalent of holding a source that is "180 mSv/h" expect it isn't because it isn't even a full body dose.
    my point is to draw you away from the idea that "one single radiation particle" from a radioactive element can cause any harm, or genetic defects because it can't. 1 particle only effect one atom, and that's it. radiation happens at a very tiny level, I have radioactive sources that are considered safe, but reads upwards to 600uSv/h. which range from 350000bq (atoms decaying every seconds) which is no problem to have around, because the activity is simply not enough to do any harm., Billions of atoms every second or
    3 000 000 000 bq, then it's dangerous! people who die are exposed to billions of atoms in total,
    So if we compary radiation to other things that are more dangerous such as poison, then it's totally safe within itself, until a certain point if that makes sense, water is also safe until you drink too much, but isn't dangerous if you drink small amounts. same with radiation
    thanks for reading, hope this can make an interesting conversation.

    • @waylen_elora
      @waylen_elora 2 роки тому

      So, I probably am going to use some parts of ur explanation for my upcoming speech on the topic Radiation 😂 thank you so much.

  • @chetanpadia4421
    @chetanpadia4421 3 місяці тому

    Aren't you Scopus to use the word energy then radiation

  • @sunfishdana
    @sunfishdana 5 років тому +2

    Then why is it used to cure cancer???

    • @shamsnelson9004
      @shamsnelson9004 4 роки тому +11

      I think they use radiation to kill the deformed/cancer cells -- the idea being it's better for a damaged cell to die than to reproduce.

    • @jimsuniverse4954
      @jimsuniverse4954 4 роки тому +6

      It doesn't cure cancer. It spreads it.

    • @paulanderson79
      @paulanderson79 4 роки тому

      @@jimsuniverse4954 That's the interesting dichotomy. It can be both malevolent and benevolent. Radio therapy is routinely used to cure cancers.

  • @paulnewcombe3373
    @paulnewcombe3373 5 років тому +8

    What a great talk from a HOT doctor

    • @joebidenissus1975
      @joebidenissus1975 Рік тому +4

      You're that "I'm gonna mary her so I get her money when she dies" kinda dude huh

  • @MrDometheo79
    @MrDometheo79 3 роки тому +2

    SUPERB!!!! 🤗 If i may, though?
    Broadly speaking....:
    1889, Power line harmonic radiation. Supression of Earths natural magnetic field.
    1918, radio era began. Powerfull LF and VLF frequencies pumped out to magnetosphere. 1918, Spanish influenza.
    1957, the radar era. Hundres of powerful military early warning stations littered high altitude latitudes of northen hemisphere. Milions of microwave energy surged skyward. Asian flue of 1957.
    1968, satellite era began. Hundreds launched. Although, they had weak broadcast power, but compounded the already existing radio wave pollution in the magnetosphere. Hong Kong flue of 1968.
    Next, Haarp activation and the beguining of the wireless era, cell phones included (4g and 5g etc)
    Result?
    Porphyrins and the Basis of Life...
    Marconi, the idiot savant, learned his lesson quickly (or did he🤔😔) about the dire effects of eletromagnetic radiation and its interaction/disturbance within Human Self Organising Biology(and other animals/insects. Bees specialy!)...because dear reader, for the great luck ( or curse)of the indewling Life aspect, incarnating within the Biologicaly Self Organising presets of Inception, these Bioverses are, after all, responsible for automating Trillllllllions of processes...Self Organisation fractals no less!! Let that, sink in!
    Pregnancies being THE best example.
    Or does the reader think thats it the mother (of ANY species) that assembles their pristine, profound, Highly Complex, offsprings....??? 🤔🤔🤔 indeed...
    Such hubris does our species have, that incarnating life awhereness in symbiosis with these Self Organising Bioverses, that it goes on destroying it all!!! 😔😔😔
    I mean the military not ""Global Warming"" (it should not take an advanced human being to perceive that it is the SUN, that does it all. RA)
    That military fiat currency is best used for the emancipation of the Human race..but no.......100000s of years of stupidity culminate in some curious choices🤔 and genetic predispositions🤔 Free Will indeed...
    How very advanced this present reiteration of incarnating humanity upon this Yuga is🤔. Greatly advanced🤔😂😂😂
    I do believe i have seen more inteligent potential sentience in Cats( despite their neural interfaces not allowing them to aproach human biology IQ levels) then in our "species"🤔...Very much so..🤔

  • @monsteroreo1962
    @monsteroreo1962 4 роки тому +5

    I just wanna know if I can listen to my AirPods

  • @lovinglife5643
    @lovinglife5643 Рік тому +3

    Curious... has anyone read the textbook magnetobiology? Might be worthwhile if curious about 5g dangers

  • @DanielGennaro
    @DanielGennaro Рік тому

    I wonder if I’m being a hypochondriac but I seriously am so mad at myself for being so stupid. I broke my pinky finger, the base of my proximal phalanx about a year and a half ago, and unfortunately it healed with a malunion, I should’ve just let it go, but I’m a guitar player and I was considering doing osteotomy for it. It still affects me everyday because it healed with a hyperextension and rotation at the base of the proximal phalanx. Which is the worst place to break your finger cause it’s right by the joint. I wish I would’ve had surgery but for whatever reason the one I went told me to just buddy tape it conservatively. I didn’t get a cast or splint. Not even advice on best position to keep it in. I went to several different surgeons since then and got probably maybe 7 to 8 different x-rays over the course of the year, I also got a CT scan recently on my hand as well, I have been reading a lot about how I can damage the DNA, I can’t really explain it, but before my hand felt stupid and now it feels retarded. I feel like my hand is so weak, I just tried playing the guitar and maybe it’s partly muscle memory but I feel like I basically nuked my hand and destroyed it. My hand CT was a high 4.18 mGy and 101 DLP. That’s over a year and half of background radiation blasted into my hand. I also got a MRI to even though they said that’s non ionizing. But I’m sure there is still risk. Which is according to research about a year and a half background radiation. The problem is they don’t tell crap about that as you’re going into appointment. Wish they did. Cause I read it can damage your dna and it’s not like after a year and a half it’s back to good. It stays with you forever. This is the most covered up conspiracy of our generation. Withholding the risks of radiation ☢️ in our lives. lol this lady proves why this system is corrupt “ we don’t know!” That should be evidence enough. Wet always know I wonder if I’m being a hypochondriac but I seriously am so mad at myself for being so stupid. I broke my pinky finger, the base of my proximal phalanx about a year and a half ago, and unfortunately it healed with a malunion, I should’ve just let it go, but I’m a guitar player and I was considering doing osteotomy for it. It still affects me everyday because it healed with a hyperextension and rotation at the base of the proximal phalanx. Which is the worst place to break your finger cause it’s right by the joint. I wish I would’ve had surgery but for whatever reason the one I went told me to just buddy tape it conservatively. I didn’t get a cast or splint. Not even advice on best position to keep it in. I went to several different surgeons since then and got probably maybe 7 to 8 different x-rays over the course of the year, I also got a CT scan recently on my hand as well, I have been reading a lot about how I can damage the DNA, I can’t really explain it, but before my hand felt stupid and now it feels retarded. I feel like my hand is so weak, I just tried playing the guitar and maybe it’s partly muscle memory but I feel like I basically nuked my hand and destroyed it. My hand CT was a high 4.18 mGy and 101 DLP. That’s over a year and half of background radiation blasted into my hand. I also got a MRI to even though they said that’s non ionizing. But I’m sure there is still risk. Which is according to research about a year and a half background radiation. The problem is they don’t tell crap about that as you’re going into appointment. Wish they did. Cause I read it can damage your dna and it’s not like after a year and a half it’s back to good. It stays with you forever. This is the most covered up conspiracy of our generation. Withholding the risks of radiation ☢️ in our lives.

  • @parabellum4622
    @parabellum4622 2 місяці тому

    Imagine I got here because I didn't know what energy color to color Qorvex from Warframe, a radiation Warframe. So, apparently now I'm learning about radiation more because of that. And I don't trust Fallout.

  • @leomartin5965
    @leomartin5965 4 роки тому +1

    So radiation on certain levels can out run light.

    • @samuele8361
      @samuele8361 9 місяців тому

      light that's not in a space vacuum

  • @jrno93
    @jrno93 2 місяці тому

    Thumbnail look like 80s and 90s james spader

  • @FahadRadi8
    @FahadRadi8 Рік тому +1

    I came here because of the HBO show Chernobyl

  • @globofgreen
    @globofgreen 6 місяців тому

    Why does she close her eyes for an unusually long time?

  • @Abf_-oq8ps
    @Abf_-oq8ps 4 роки тому +4

    She’s in shock, take her to the infirmary.

    • @tylerspivey9639
      @tylerspivey9639 4 роки тому +5

      Adam Flack why do you people keep saying that about the doctors explain radiation? Really wanna know...

  • @felicitydeikos5250
    @felicitydeikos5250 Рік тому

    Nuclear medicine?

  • @MrLougarou1000
    @MrLougarou1000 2 роки тому

    I need her to teach me. She made it sound so simple.

  • @pihuparuworld
    @pihuparuworld Рік тому +2

    Legends in 2023😮😮😮😂😅

    • @MartyrOf
      @MartyrOf Місяць тому

      How about 2024 covid was wild right?

  • @japanuke960
    @japanuke960 9 років тому

    @TheaDragonSpirit oh shush that's not the point

  • @paandrews537
    @paandrews537 7 років тому +11

    She was lying about radiation, there's a difference between man-made that it is poisonous, and the type that is a part of nature... That we have always lived around and does not affect us, like man-made radiation.

    • @paulanderson79
      @paulanderson79 4 роки тому +10

      This video is absolutely accurate. How do you, personally, define man made radiation?

    • @micah7685
      @micah7685 2 роки тому

      Ct scan messed me up. Man made is the worst and making people sick.

    • @dagothodros641
      @dagothodros641 Рік тому

      Put your tin foil hat on and take your meds. Let me guess you think the election was stolen too?

    • @samuele8361
      @samuele8361 9 місяців тому +1

      man made (whatever that means) and natural radiations are the same: they behave the same, they have the same property and they have the same biological effect.

    • @baronsaturday1
      @baronsaturday1 4 місяці тому

      She's lying. I know. I took radiation science in high school. Low doses caused the highest amount of mutations in the fruit flies we tested, while high doses killed off the grass. NOTHING GREW IN THE PLANTER!!!!!!

  • @faridbachir8511
    @faridbachir8511 Рік тому

    And radiation comes from the satellites 🛰

  • @DontWorryBouttaThing
    @DontWorryBouttaThing 3 роки тому

    Watches video... im a radiation specialist now 😬👌

  • @yoel9001
    @yoel9001 Рік тому

    radiations is unhealthy in our healthy,

  • @globy4104
    @globy4104 4 роки тому

    Her eyes annoyed me. Otherwise pretty gud.

    • @ramonmartinez2477
      @ramonmartinez2477 4 роки тому +2

      It was "pretty good" regardless. Her eyes annoying you has nothing to do with the matter in which she is discussing. Her eyes annoying you is your very own problem you judgemental fuck.