All 22 Uses of
radiation
in
Hiroshima
- These four did not realize it, but they were coming down with the strange, capricious disease which came later to be known as radiation sickness.†
Chpt 4
- Japanese physicists, who knew a great deal about atomic fission (one of them owned a cyclotron) worried about lingering radiation at Hiroshima, and in mid-August, not many days after President Truman's disclosure of the type of bomb that had been dropped, they entered the city to make investigations.†
Chpt 4
- Starting east and west from the actual center, the scientists, in early September, made new measurements, and the highest radiation they found this time was 3.†
Chpt 4
- Since radiation of at least a thousand times the natural 'leak' would be required to cause serious effects on the human body, the scientists announced that people could enter Hiroshima without any peril at all.†
Chpt 4
- The doctor was too busy to visit him in Ushida, but he dispatched a nurse, who recognized his symptoms as those of mild radiation disease and came back from time to time to give him injections of Vitamin B. A Buddhist priest with whom Mr Tanimoto was acquainted called on him and suggested that moxibustion might give relief; the priest showed the pastor how to give himself the ancient Japanese treatment, by setting fire to a twist of the stimulant herb moxa placed on the wrist pulse.†
Chpt 4
- The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them.†
Chpt 4
- Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock.†
Chpt 4
- The duration of the disease varied depending on the patient's constitution and the amount of radiation he had received.†
Chpt 4
- People who suffered flash burns were protected, to a considerable extent, from radiation sickness.†
Chpt 4
- Citizens who had recovered from various degrees of radiation sickness were coming back by the thousand — by 1 November, the population, mostly crowded into the outskirts, was already 137,000, more than a third of the war-time peak — and the government set in motion all kinds of projects: to put them to work rebuilding the city.†
Chpt 4
- ...statisticians calculated that about twenty-five per cent had died of direct burns from the bomb, about fifty per cent from other injuries, and about twenty per cent as a result of radiation effects.
Chpt 4 *radiation = particles emitted by nuclear decay
- And from further measurements of radiation, which involved, among other things, the scraping up of fission fragments from roof troughs and drainpipes as far away as the suburb of Takasu, thirty-three hundred yards from the center, they learned some far more important facts about the nature of the bomb.†
Chpt 4
- They estimated that even with the primitive bomb used at Hiroshima, it would require a shelter of concrete fifty Inches thick to protect a human being entirely from radiation sickness.†
Chpt 4
- In those days, there was a shortage of chemical fertilizers in Japan, so farmers were using night soil, and as a consequence many people began to harbor parasites, which were not fatal in themselves but were seriously debilitating to those who had had radiation sickness.†
Chpt 5
- The violent symptoms of primary radiation sickness wore off in time in most patients, but it soon became clear that hibakusha were liable to deeper and far more dangerous sequels from the enormous doses of radiation dealt them by the bomb.†
Chpt 5
- The violent symptoms of primary radiation sickness wore off in time in most patients, but it soon became clear that hibakusha were liable to deeper and far more dangerous sequels from the enormous doses of radiation dealt them by the bomb.†
Chpt 5
- Because it was known that radiation affected the genes of laboratory animals, a fear spread among many hibakusha that future descendants of the survivors might be subject to mutations.†
Chpt 5
- As chief of surgery at the Hiroshima hospital, Dr. Hattori had been Dr. Sasaki's boss there; he had come down with radiation sickness after the bombing and had moved to Yokohama.†
Chpt 5
- For the rest of his life, his was to be a classic case history of that vague, borderline form of A-bomb sickness in which a person's body developed a rich repertory of symptoms, few of which could be positively attributed to radiation, but many of which turned up in hibakusha, in various combinations and degrees, so often as to be blamed by some doctors and almost all patients on the bomb.†
Chpt 5
- DR. FUJll suffered from none of the effects of radiation overdose, and he evidently felt that for any psychological damage the horrors of the bombing may have done him the best therapy was to follow the pleasure principle.†
Chpt 5
- Indeed, he recommended to hibakusha who did have radiation symptoms that they take a regular dosage of alcohol.†
Chpt 5
- He then applied to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, which had been set up to study the radiation aftereffects of the bomb — aftereffects that those who made the decision to drop the bomb had utterly failed to foresee.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(radiation) particles emitted by nuclear decay (i.e., particles smaller than an atom that are sent out due to radioactivity)editor's notes: Generally, radiation is discussed in terms of harmful levels of radiation that cause sickness. However, there is a normal level of radiation that is not harmful and sometimes radiation is carefully used for beneficial purposes such as medical treatments.