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<p>The 19-gigabecquerel ceramic source can cause skin burns, radiation sickness, and cancer. Picture: Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP</p>

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Irish Examiner view: Deadly needle in a haystack

Missing vial of Caesium-137

<p>Discussion on Russian state television of the impact a Russian nuclear device would have if detonated off the coast of Donegal. Video via Twitter</p>

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Nuclear war 'must never be unleashed', says Russian embassy despite TV report on impact of attack on Ireland

<p>Maxim Shevchuk, the deputy head of the agency managing the Chernobyl exclusion zone, pictured on April 16 at a building that had been occupied by Russian troops near the ruined nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Picture: Efrem Lukatsky/AP<br/> </p>

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Adi Roche: UN Chernobyl Remembrance Day is a time to think of our brothers and sisters

Traumatic Brain Injury deaths

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Increase in number of patients accidentally exposed to ionising radiation in Irish hospitals last year

CT examination in the process. Detail of MRI scanner

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HIQA: 68 patients accidentally exposed to ionising radiation in Irish hospitals last year

Elderly woman who got seven times more radiation than prescribed during hospital treatment wins €850k award

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Elderly woman who got seven times more radiation than prescribed during hospital treatment wins €850k award

Fukushima reactor worker develops cancer

Fukushima reactor worker develops cancer

A man in his 40s who worked at the Fukushima nuclear plant after the 2011 disaster is the first person confirmed to have developed cancer from radiation exposure, Japan has confirmed.

Wed, 21 Oct, 2015