The decision to declare your pregnancy is completely yours. The NRC has a limit of 0.5 rem for fetal exposure. This is 1/10 of the normal yearly exposure limit for radiation workers. The only reason ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A National Nuclear Security Administration official last month said Los Alamos National Laboratory has increased its limits on the ...

In hospitals, clinics, and unaffiliated radiologists' offices throughout the world, computed tomography (CT) scans are increasingly the diagnostic tool of choice. The reason for the explosive growth ...

Although a recent Institute of Medicine (IOM 1995a) study found that Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) dose data are unsuitable for dose-response analysis (see Chapter 8), a subsequent report (IOM 1995b) ...