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This document was prepared to warn the scientists in Ottawa who had to handle samples of radioactive ore, but nobody warned the miners or the Dene men who carried the ore sacks. By the 1940s, radium had become worthless a waste byproduct of uranium mining. There was no market for radium any more. Too many people had been killed by handling it. 5
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light particle
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(stopped by thick lead)
INSIDE THE BODY, ALPHA RADIATION IS 20 TIMES MORE DAMAGING (PER UNIT OF ENERGY) THAN BETA OR GAMMA Figure 15 Alpha radiation in an apes lung tissue Figure 16 Three types of atomic radiation
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