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Low-Level radiation. Questions and answers (1987)
| Author | P.Green, FOE |
| Date | 1987 |
| Classification | 6.01.4.00/83 (RADIATION - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
LOW LEVEL RADIATION: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Section A: Radioactivity Q. What is radioactivity and how does it arise? A. To explain the nature of radioactivity we have to consider what happens within the building blocks of matter. These are the atoms. Atoms are comprised of three types of sub-atomic particle, (i) the positively charged protons which together with (ii) the neutral neutrons make up the nucleus, orbiting the nucleus are (iii) the negatively charged electrons.
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