alpha radiation
alpha ray

Avoiding direct exposure with fallout particles will prevent injury from alpha radiation.

"Can you adjust shields to block the alpha radiation?"

And that won't solve the problem of how to protect everyone from the alpha radiation.

And so, the reasoning went, alpha radiation could not hurt you as long as the source stayed outside your body.

If alpha radiation should also prove an unusual source of other cell damage, it would have to be considered even more dangerous, he said.

Radioactivity readings for his face, hair and hands read 2,000 counts of alpha radiation per minute.

For example, alpha radiation has low penetration and is not a danger outside the body.

Their anger is justified and is rising at the moment, because even low levels of alpha radiation can have a severe effect on children.

In Manchester, he continued to work with alpha radiation.

Some kind of alpha radiation, maybe, or low neutron radiation?