Radiation in dailylife

In the everyday environment, Finns suffer the most health damage from natural radiation - radon at workplaces, at home and in leisure apartments, and from UV radiation, which must be protected from with clothes, shade and cream.

Current issues

A drone operator holds a source of radiation in their hands. The amount of power required for controlling a drone can be quite small. The necessary power is far too small in quantity to warm the operator’s tissue or to have other effects.

The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority helped Russia improve the safety of their nuclear power plants for thirty years from the beginning of the 1990s. This cooperation ended following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. History researcher Petri Paju has report...