Radiation Fact Sheets

The following Health Physics Society Fact Sheets are available as portable document format (PDF) files.

Airport Screening Fact Sheet • May 2011 (523,760 bytes)

Background Radiation Fact Sheet • June 2012 (743,196 bytes)

Consumer Products Containing Radioactive Materials • February 2010 (489,910 bytes)

Depleted Uranium • February 2010 (391,412 bytes)

Environmental Radiation • January 2010 (734,385 bytes)

Food Irradiation • June 2010 (697,629 bytes)

Mobile Telephones • May 2010 (587,844 bytes)

Polonium-210 • May 2010 (503,986 bytes)

Potassium Iodide (KI) • February 2011 (573,915 bytes)

Radiation Exposure and Pregnancy • June 2010 (491,670 bytes)

Radiation Exposure from Medical Exams and Procedures • January 2010 (503,253 bytes)

Tanning Salons • January 2010 (489,098 bytes)

Tritium • March 2011 (540,517 bytes)

Uranium • February 2011 (722,287 bytes)