SCI-KIDS: Most radiation is harmless, but watch out for 3 things
Aug 31, 2006
SCI-KIDS Sci-Kids is a weekly column on science topics for children in elementary through middle school.
What should we do about the flood of radiation around us?
As good scientists, we should first categorize and list. What is around us? Hitting us? Passing through us?
The radiation in our environment is electromagnetic radiation, wavelike particles (or particlelike waves) of energy. Radio waves qualify. So do TV broadcast waves and satellite transmissions, such as Global Positioning System signals.
Cell-phone signals count, as do the little TV and DVD remote controls. One massive radiator in our kitchen: the microwave oven.
T-Mobile wants to build a new high-rise cell phone tower on State Route 571 and Scarff roads and they are getting less than an enthusiastic response from some Bethel residents.
On Thursday night, concerned citizens met with Eric Engen, Regional Development Manager of T-Mobile, Pat McLivenna, President of PBM Wireless, and Kit Nickel, Consultant for PBM Wireless at the Trustees' invitation to try to ease some of the concerns and tension between the two groups.
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Mobile-phone carriers have long dressed up unsightly towers with leaves and branches. Will they now consider concealing antennas in blimps?
Wireless service providers have long faced a dilemma when it comes to the towers that help transmit calls. Customers want seamless coverage—except they don't want the coverage-boosting cellular towers in their backyards.
There was anger today after people discovered Norwich City Council is unable to remove potentially harmful phone masts from above their flats.
It was also revealed that the council has earned about £400,000 from telecoms companies companies to allow them to put the masts on its property.
Figures released to the Evening News under the Freedom Of Information Act revealed five residential tower blocks owned by the city council have mobile phone masts on top of them, putting hundreds of people at risk from the possible effect of emissions.
Families in Norwich have learned the phone masts on top of some tower blocks, like Normandie Tower, have earned the city council hundreds of thousands of pounds.
A man blames wireless technology for attacks of searing pain - and is afraid to leave the house without a protective hairnet.
Ryan Warne quit his £30,000-a-year sales job after becoming convinced that microwaves from IT equipment were making him unwell.
The 35-year-old now needs binoculars to study his computer screen from a safe distance at home in Elmstead Market.
He uses his hairnet as a radiation crash helmet whenever he is outside, which fends off what he describes as a "burning sensation" caused by exposure to mobile phone signals.
Taking action - Ryan Warne with his hairnet, which helps combat the radiation.
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