• Question: In your research do you have to deal with radioactivity?

    Asked by buddingscientist to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Not really, no.

      I have held some radioactive sources in the past, but radiation doesn’t really come in to my current research.

    • Photo: Catherine Rix

      Catherine Rix answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      No, but we do have some rocks in our lab that are radioactive that we use in some demonstrations. They were collected from a beach in Spain.

    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      No. Although I did learn about it in my physics degree and I have even taught about it at a very basic level in a maths course (as a real life example or probability).

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      Not normally, but I am using a big particle accelerator to get X-ray pictures of my fossils. When the particles crash into one another they create all kinds of radiation, so I have to wear a monitor and if it gets too high I’m not allowed to go back for a while.

    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 21 Mar 2012:

      No, thankfully.

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