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Radiation-eating Fungi
SEWilco writes "Fungus growths have been found in many extreme environments, including the Chernobyl reactor walls. Some fungi have been found whose growth is enhanced by radiation. I wonder if someone saved samples of the MIR-eating fungi."
Radiation is eating Fungi? I think you might have wanted: "Radiation-eating Fungi," especially in a headline. Consider: "Insect eating plants."
The link for mir-eating fungi goes to an old slashdot story which itself points to a dead link. A usable link to the original story is here: http://www.space.com/news/spacestation/space_fungu s_000727.html
Radioactive isotopes can emit alpha particles, which are helium nuclei, beta particles, which are an electron emitted from the nucleus when a neutron changes into a proton and an electron, or gamma particles (more accurately rays) which have no mass or charge and are a form of electromagnetic radiation. The closest thing to what you are suggesting would be an ionized hydrogen atom, which is simply a proton. This, however, is not a form of radiation; it's just, well, hydrogen.
"Er, Ukraine. Chernobyl is in Ukraine. Ukraine most definitely is not Russia.", "Yes these days Chernobyl is in Ukraine, which is not in Russia, but in 1986 when the melt down occurred, it was in Russia and back then it was Soviet Russia, the the GP was correct: Remember, Chernobyl was in Soviet Russia. and that's my two cents" Er, Ukraine was a _state_ in the Soviet _Union_, thus Chernobyl was in Soviet Ukraine, not Soviet Russia
Scotland and Wales are in no way a part of England, they are all a part of Great Britain.
No, it was in the Soviet Union, in the Ukraine.
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As the name could show you, it's a physicist (someone with a PhD in physics) working in the medical fields (his colleagues are MD, just like me).
There's a field of medicine where we needs the a lot, for exemple : the nuclear medicine.
High radiations are something that kills, as the MP said before. Therefor they can be focalised and targeted to kill cancer cells (Yes. Friking "nucular death rays" !
It's the physicist's job to design the model that the software use to predict how to irradiate the targeted tumor without irradiating too much neighboring healthy organs. It's also he's who is in charge of the callibration of the machine etc.
Other example : low-level radiation are mostly harmless. but they can be detected. Thus there's a whole class of examinations that can be done by ingesting/inhalating/injecting some radioactive material, and then make pictures/filming the radioactive emission to 'see' where the radioactive product went (for exemple using a radioactive gaz, to see how gaz circulated inside the lung. That's part of an examination called "pulmonary scintigraphy"). The doctor is mostly only taking care to read and interpret the produced pictures. Almost everything else (production of radioactive material, machine callibration, etc.) is supervised by physicists (and the actual manual job done by technicians).
etc.
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The Amish refer to those who aren't of German decent as "English", regardless to race, creed, or planetary origin. Though, now that I'm thinking about it, an Amish Special Ops force would be pretty awesome.