This chapter of the book is about radiation protection. It discusses nuclear incidents that have happened in the past, such as Chernobyl, and some closer that have even effected people of new jersey and surrounding areas. Most interesting to me was the story of the Radium girls of South Orange, and how they were employed to handle paint containing radium. Their employers knew of the risks, however still hired these woman, who would wet their paintbrushes in their mouths and therefore ingesting the radioactive paint, causing health issues late on in their lives. Had this have been public knowledge this could have been stopped, rather than so many innocent woman facing health issues in life due to not receiving proper training or warnings about the pain they were working with.
After reading this chapter, the things that struck me the most was that, people here in new jersey, for example the Radium Girls, were affected by radiation, when I never really think of being affected by anything like that in my life unless some type of event happened like an explosion of some sort. I never really thought of possible radiation people are exposed to in their lives and jobs now and in the past. I also thought it was scary how when these woman were working no one told them of the risks! Had they have known, I’m sure they would have taken precautions when handling the paint, or found jobs elsewhere.
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