| To some, a major nuclear detonation somewhere in the world soon, is inevitable. There is so much speculation on nuclear weaponry, or nuclear detonation in the world today, from Saddam's alleged ownership of such, to the very real threat of the Bush Administration causing a nuclear detonation or firing a nuclear missile. Most of the attention has been taken away from nuclear medicine and the huge benefits of the other ‘nuclear'. Nuclear medicine has made medical history.
A nuclear medicine technician use radioactive tracers for diagnostic imaging and treatment. The imaging administered by a nuclear medicine technician can also tell how a patient is responding to the treatments administered.
 The tracers that are admitted into patients by the nuclear medicine technician give off radiation. This is measured by equipment such as: X-ray, CAT scans etc; and can accurately evaluate brain, heart, lung, kidney and other organ functions and responses. The standards set for this occupation are not easy either, to become a nuclear medicine technician or nuclear medicine technologist in today's world, the requirements are: a degree in nuclear medicine technology, (from a recognized college), the successful completion of a certification exam set by the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists, a license to practice nuclear medicine technology.
On the other side of the scale, nuclear weapons cause mass destruction and many deaths, by a form of radiation as well.
A nuclear detonation creates radiation in the form of a mushroom cloud, which can travel miles away from the nuclear detonation.
The most popular nuclear detonation that has occurred in history was the one in the United States dropped a uranium-type bomb on Hiroshima , in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor , during World War II.
Three days later, the Americans dropped a plutonium-type device on Nagasaki . This latter mushroom cloud rose some 18 km. above the hypocenter. It also resulted in the immediate death of 100,000-200,000 people.
Since WW2, nuclear detonations have been set off thousands of times, for testing. Today the only known countries that have released a nuclear detonation are: United States , Soviet Union , France , India , Republic of China, Pakistan , and United Kingdom.
North Korea and Israel have boasted of having a claim to nuclear weaponry as well, in recent years. |
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