What can goods are safe from radiation?

Answer 1

Things don't contain radiation. They can EMIT radiation, but they do this by actively producing it. It's like people emit sounds when they talk but there isn't a load of sound sitting inside the person waiting to be released.

Answer 2

Radiation questions are always tricky, because there is no one type of radiation and there is no single answer.

First let's assume this question is more like "How could canned goods become radioactive?" The short answer: Canned goods will not become more radioactive unless you place them next to a extremely high energy beam, which exists only at research facilities. I say "more", because every item on earth that has carbon in it is also slightly radioactive. "You" are naturally radioactive at very very very low levels.

Canned goods could be initially packaged with radioactive material. In today's environment, with the Japan crisis, our biggest problem, and it's small, is with Iodine. Two forms of iodine are radioactive and our thyroid takes up a lot of iodine. The good news on this is two-fold: the worst radioactive iodine has a half-life of 8 days, so that if it is canned, transported and left on a shelf for 2 weeks, the amount of radioactive iodine is already 25% of what it was originally - use table salt, not sea salt, while technically the same, table salt is refined and has non-radioactive iodine added (usually). That already helps our thyroid by filling it with good iodine.

To reduce today's risk - listen to people monitoring the radiation. There are so many people doing this now, it's easy to find. If there is a higher amount and our government is concerned about it, they have done a lot of research on this..... Purchase canned goods from the Southern Hemisphere, they're not getting the same amount of radiation, or simply, the easiest, let your canned goods sit on the shelf for 24 days to reduce the amount of radiation to only 12% of what it was when you bought it.

Answer 3

Most goods are safe from radiation, as exposure to common levels of radiation typically does not pose a significant risk to most everyday items. However, sensitive electronics, photographic film, and some food items may be susceptible to damage from radiation and should be appropriately shielded or avoided in high radiation environments.

Answer 4

Radiactive isotopes emit ionizing radiations.

Answer 5

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