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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Accidents > Radioactive Hazard Release
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Accidents > Radioactive Hazard Release
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Accidents > Radioactive Hazard Release

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Radioactive Hazard Release  

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Definition

  • Uncontrolled release of radioactive material from its containment. This either threatens to, or does, cause exposure to a radioactive hazard. Such an incident may occur accidentally or deliberately. Accidental dispersal of radioactive materials from a radiation source. Accidents at nuclear reactors can involve large groups of the population from dispersion of radioactivity into the environment and through fallout or a few individuals with high injurious doses.

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