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Not sure if this belongs here or in the nuclear engineering forum.
Many cancer patients in radiation therapy for cancer receive as much as 170-190 rads of daily radiation for 7-9 weeks. When I looked at a radiation chart I found that equates roughly to the dose at 1 mile from a Hiroshima type explosion on a daily basis. The former is, hopefully, curartive. The latter is, presumably, lethal.
What's the difference? Is it the duration? Milliseconds for a nuclear blast vs minutes for radiation therapy? Or is it area covered? Whole body for nuclear blast vs focused for radiation therapy?
Many cancer patients in radiation therapy for cancer receive as much as 170-190 rads of daily radiation for 7-9 weeks. When I looked at a radiation chart I found that equates roughly to the dose at 1 mile from a Hiroshima type explosion on a daily basis. The former is, hopefully, curartive. The latter is, presumably, lethal.
What's the difference? Is it the duration? Milliseconds for a nuclear blast vs minutes for radiation therapy? Or is it area covered? Whole body for nuclear blast vs focused for radiation therapy?