Category: Public Education
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Protective Actions for Radiation Emergencies – Get Inside, Stay Inside, Stay Tuned
An accident at a nuclear power plant, a nuclear explosion, and a dirty bomb are examples of radiation emergencies. If a radiation emergency happens nearby, immediately leaving the area may not be the best course of action. Instead, emergency response officials may tell you to get inside a building and take shelter for a period…
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Protective Actions for Radiation Emergencies – Food and Water Safety
After a radiation emergency, food and water sources may become contaminated with radioactive material. Consuming contaminated food and water will cause radioactive material to get inside your body, but you can eliminate or reduce the amount of contamination by taking a few precautions.
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Protective Actions for Radiation Emergencies – Self-Decontamination
If you are outside in an area when a radiation emergency happens, you could be contaminated with radioactive material. Radioactive material can fall from the air and land on people, buildings, roads, cars, and other objects. This is called contamination. It is important to get radioactive contamination off your body as soon as you can…
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Sheltering in a Radiation Emergency
This brief animated video describes visually what is meant when officials tell people to “shelter in place” in a radiation emergency. In a large-scale radiation emergency, the immediate and key protective action is to “Get Inside, Stay Inside, and Stay Tuned for Information” and the video describes what is a safe shelter. The video also…
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Communicating in Radiation Emergencies: “Myths” of Radiation – Myth 7
This set of 7 brief videos is designed to help viewers to identify common misconceptions or “myths” about radiation, recognize communication challenges unique to radiation emergencies, and describe appropriate communication strategies to counteract misconceptions of radiation.
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Communicating in Radiation Emergencies: “Myths” of Radiation – Myth 6
This set of 7 brief videos is designed to help viewers to identify common misconceptions or “myths” about radiation, recognize communication challenges unique to radiation emergencies, and describe appropriate communication strategies to counteract misconceptions of radiation.
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Communicating in Radiation Emergencies: “Myths” of Radiation – Myth 5
This set of 7 brief videos is designed to help viewers to identify common misconceptions or “myths” about radiation, recognize communication challenges unique to radiation emergencies, and describe appropriate communication strategies to counteract misconceptions of radiation.
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Communicating in Radiation Emergencies: “Myths” of Radiation – Myth 4
This set of 7 brief videos is designed to help viewers to identify common misconceptions or “myths” about radiation, recognize communication challenges unique to radiation emergencies, and describe appropriate communication strategies to counteract misconceptions of radiation.
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Communicating in Radiation Emergencies: “Myths” of Radiation – Myth 3
This set of 7 brief videos is designed to help viewers to identify common misconceptions or “myths” about radiation, recognize communication challenges unique to radiation emergencies, and describe appropriate communication strategies to counteract misconceptions of radiation.
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Communicating in Radiation Emergencies: “Myths” of Radiation – Myth 2
This set of 7 brief videos is designed to help viewers to identify common misconceptions or “myths” about radiation, recognize communication challenges unique to radiation emergencies, and describe appropriate communication strategies to counteract misconceptions of radiation.