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What is Ionizing Radiation?
A good website explaining ionizing radiation from the World Health Organisation

What is Hawking Radiation?
Black holes emit particles through Hawking radiation. Find out what it is here.

Hyperphysics - Intensity of Radiation
Page talking about intensity of radiation in roentgens and use with X -ray machines.

What is Hawking radiation?
A description of Hawking radiation, which, theoretically, causes black holes to shrink.

Cosmic Background Radiation
A uniform background radiation in the microwave region of the spectrum is observed in all directions in the sky. It shows the wavelength dependence of a "black body" radiator at about 3 Kelvins ...

How Nuclear Radiation Works
A brief description of how Nuclear Radiation works from HowStuffWorks.com. Covering atomic structure, particles, radioactive decay, applications, naturally occurring isotopes.

Planck's Hypothesis
In order to explain the frequency distribution of radiation from a hot cavity (blackbody radiation) Planck proposed the ad hoc assumption that the radiant energy could exist only in discrete quanta ...

Radiation dose chart
A simple chart illustrating the ionising radiation dose a person can receive from various different sources.

Hyperphysics - Absorbed Dose of Radiation
Definition and units of absorbed dose and the biological effectiveness of radiation.