h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've knocked out a short entry on different types of radiation for a Uni project on NBC warfare. I'd appreciate it if you could check it out and see if I've dropped any clangers or missed anything vital out. It's not going in Peer Review, so if you could just answer here that'd be great.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A652673

Thanks...

H.

Hi Hoovooloo

Only one thing I spotted:
'Neutron radiation is a by-product of fusion reactions'
don't you mean fission reactions?

Have you read Hell's (unfinnished) entry on radioactivity?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A546068

MP

Well, fission as well, I suppose. I just remembered that one of the big giveaways that cold fusion wasn't going to solve all our problems was that when the independent people tried to set it up, they didn't register any of the neutron emissions they would have expected. So fission and fusion do it, but it particularly associated with fusion - neutron bombs being small low blast fusion bombs, I think...

And yeah, I've read Hell's entry, and asked him for input. He seems to awol though. Shame...

Anyway, thanks for checking...

H.