The Hall of Fame outfielder Tony Gwynn has cancer in a salivary gland and faces radiation and chemotherapy.
He faces radiation, chemotherapy and, if he's lucky, surgery -- but even then, his chance of surviving intact are only 50percentt (hence, the title).
Workers who were already facing deadly radiation exposure were forced to sleep on a floor with barely enough to eat and drink, until the Japanese media exposed their terrible conditions.
Devices deployed in the nuclear environment face radiation particle strike that causes transient and permanent failures.
Patients undergoing interventional procedures in cardiology face radiation exposure in the order of a thousand or more times than that involved in conventional radiography [ 9].
Now after breast surgery and chemotherapy, she faced only radiation, although 28 days of it.
Since then he has worked all hours, sleeping in a cot in his office.Another is Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma, who in the heat of the crisis went on NHK, the national broadcaster, to berate the country's authorities for failing to come to the aid of his town, which faced rising radiation levels from the nearby Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear-power plant.
The grim forecast suggests that astronauts and frequent flyers will face greater radiation hazards and could rule out a crewed mission to Mars before 2050.
At J-Village - once Japan's national football training centre - we got dressed in protective gear, ready to face the radiation.
The challenges of implementing small satellites within limited resources can be daunting when faced with radiation effects on delicate electronics that require shielding or unique adaptations for protection, or mass, power and volume limitations due to constraints placed by the carrier spacecraft, or even Planetary Protection compliant design techniques that drive assembly and testing.
