Dr. Geraldine Thomas (previously member of the UK Government Committee on Radioactive Waste Management and Professor of Molecular Pathology at Imperial College and Director of the Chernobyl Tissue Bank), the meeting’s main presenter, will speak on the human health consequences of the radiation from three nuclear energy accidents as well as the Nuclear bombs dropped on Japan.
This is from the meeting "Risk and Benefits from radiation". Join us for an expert overview of historical nuclear and radiological accidents and the health consequences resulting from the release of radioactive isotopes, as well as the use of ionizing radiation in medicine for diagnostics and treatment.
Ionizing radiation has both harmful and beneficial effects on the human health, what have we learned by the history?