Crossword-Solution: IONIZING 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Safety Standards and Procedures The safety criteria established for Project TRINITY were based on calculations of the anticipated dangers from blast pressure, thermal radiation, and ionizing radiation.

DOD organized an effort to: o Identify DOD personnel who had taken part in the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests o Determine the extent of the participants' exposure to ionizing radiation o Provide public disclosure of information concerning participation by military personnel in Project TRINITY.

The biological effects of all forms of ionizing radiation have been calculated within broad ranges by the National Academy of Sciences.

This disrupts the chemical bonds for critically important cell structures like the cytoplasm, which carries the cell's genetic blueprints, and also produces chemical constituents which can cause as much damage as the original ionizing radiation.

The objection to the latter term is that it limits the ionizing radiation to gamma rays, which were undoubtedly the most important; but the possible contribution of neutron and even beta rays to the biological effects cannot be entirely ignored.