You have often heard people talk about radiation in fiction and in real life. At Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, nuclear power plants released radioactive substances into the atmosphere during nuclear accidents. In this edition of How Stuff Works we will look at nuclear radiation so that you can understand exactly what is going on and how it affects your life on a daily basis.
Nuclear radiation can be both extremely beneficial and extremely dangerous.
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