Public journey, crime of radioactive substances

Since the discovery of the scientist Henri Becquerel in 1896, up to now, radioactive invention has been nearly 120 years old. In that journey of more than 100 years of history, this material has undergone ups and downs, sometimes the end of women and today is becoming a silent risk of a natural disaster that scientists New learning just discovered.

Radiation - From medical use to money making industry

A nuclear gas explosion.

In 1902, the first results of medical research on radioactive substances were published worldwide. People use the energy of radiation to destroy unhealthy cells and treat some skin diseases. Since then, X-ray therapy was born and exists today. In the 1920s, at the Radium Research Institute, many radiation experts collaborated with doctors treating cancer by burning disorganized growth cells. In the mind of the public at the time, radium was universal . On this psychological level, some people did not miss the opportunity to make money by announcing that radium radiated rays of light from the power of a mysterious, fresh source of streams. Some people even pushed the idea further, saying that white metal is a stone that turns lead into . gold of alchemists and magic. From there, people found radium on all kinds of goods packaging, from perfume, anti-wrinkle cream, to animal feed.

Remarkably, a skin cream for women called Tho-Radia , introduced as Dr. Alfred Curie's invention. This cream, once available on the market, has been used by ladies because it is advertised to bring the spring beauty to the wrinkled, aging skin thanks to radioactive ingredients. Fortunately for the ladies at the time, most advertising products with radium were just . fake goods, because this material is very difficult to produce and very expensive, otherwise, the beauty masks have burned. How much of the lady's beautiful face is the burnt face.

'Military revolution' and 'human beetles'

In the 1930s, scientists Frederic and Irene Joliot Curie produced artificial radioactivity. Since then, scientists do not have to depend on natural, rare and extremely expensive radioactive materials. In 1945, more specifically, on August 6, 1945, the first nuclear bomb in human history erupted on Hiroshima Island - Japan showed the reverse side of radioactive material in the hands of the military. Yet the Western press called the action a military yoke, comparable to the 'fire discovery of our prehistoric ancestors '. If the ' cloning ' of these weapons, humans can collapse the earth.

Nuclear laboratory

Scientists have also discovered that nuclear bombs kill animals by releasing radioactive rays that can cause cancer and leukemia. In the 1950s, radium-containing lotion boxes were absent on store shelves, but in return, film producers attached radioactive materials to other extraordinary effects, the ability to create monsters. Giant objects like Godzilla terrifying lizards. But even more frightening is the discovery of female journalist Eileen Welsome, who posted on the small newspaper Albuquerque Tribune about one of the biggest secrets of the Cold War era, the US government's use of thousands of wrestlers. experiments for nuclear radiation . They are called " human beetles ". Of these, 18 Americans were injected with plutonium directly into the bloodstream, 73 disabled children at a school in Massachusetts fed with oat porridge with radioactive isotopes . In a hospital in Tennessee, 829 pregnant women were given a ' vitamin cocktail ' containing radioactive iron. That is not to mention tests of nuclear radiation on humans hidden from the time of the nuclear program being deployed before and after the Second World War (1939-1945).

Radioactive substances with environment and food

From the 1950s and 1960s, the release of plutonium into the environment has become an alarming problem. The region of Sellafield (UK) is a producer of plutonium for the manufacture of nuclear warheads. Consequently, radioactive substances increase in the living environment, harming the health and lives of people. In a small village in Seascale, 2 km south of Sellafield, the number of children with leukemia increased by 7 times compared to other places. A similar situation occurred in many parts of Ireland, forcing the government to accuse the United Kingdom government of polluting radioactivity on their coastal areas. The British government said it spent £ 2 billion in 15 years to treat nuclear waste. According to the recently published data, in the Irish Sea, the density of radioactive substances around Sellafield factory is still high.

High radioactivity of the environment leads to the situation that many foods used by humans are also contaminated.

Recently, a new scientific discovery has given people a surprise and anxiety. It is the feces of seabirds that enhance radioactive isotopes into the food we use every day. This observation was made by scientists after finding high levels of radioactive substances in bird droppings and trees growing on an island near the North Pole. They explain that radioactive substances accumulate in the ocean through geological changes on the seabed, in addition to human-emitted radioisotopes in handling land-based nuclear facilities. , of which radioactive material from the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986, caused seawater and marine organisms to become contaminated and eventually through seabirds, the radioactive material contaminated with food, vegetables on land.

Although today, radioactive substances are still being used but images of radium have changed rapidly in the eyes of the masses. People are much more wary of radioactive substances in nature as well as man-made. Scientists are still plying non-stop in studying radioactive substances to find out how to maximize their benefits and limit their harmful side.