12. February 2019 14:21:10 IST
The word "radiation" is immediately reminiscent of mushroom clouds, decaying skin, melting faces and mutated children. And why not? Pop Culture ( The Terminator Dr Strangelove The Day After ) and the appalling reality of the Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombs and the Chernobyl and Fukushima bombings catastrophes have fired these images into our collective minds and led to a kind of collective paranoia.
Radiation, however, is a much kinder term that applies to everything from light to heat to sound. In fact, every moment of your existence is spent being bombarded with some kind of radiation. What is really important is the type and intensity of radiation that you are exposed to. For mobile phones and cell towers, you only need to worry about two types of radiation: ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
Ionizing radiation is electromagnetic radiation that has enough energy to separate electrons from atoms is strong enough to ionize atoms. This type of radiation is indeed carcinogenic and a high enough dosage can affect all living things, from bacteria to Bruce Willis. Also in this case, the operative word is "dosage". For example, ultraviolet light is ionizing radiation, and you are constantly busy with it. They are also constantly bombarded with ionizing radiation that has enough energy to pull thousands of light-years through space and hit you tiny as you work on planet Earth. But they hit you in low doses and dosing matters.
Bananas are more likely to cause cancer
Potassium-rich foods such as bananas also emit some form of ionizing radiation. In fact, if you spend a lot of time on flights, you will receive significantly more radiation than the average person. You must strive far enough to irradiate enough ionizing radiation to cause permanent damage .
But here is the kicker. Mobile and mobile masts radiate only non-ionizing radiation, which is almost completely harmless. This is radiation that does not have enough energy to ionize molecules, but it can cause some local heating if it is sufficiently intense. On this principle, the microwave oven relies on a microwave oven, and you have to remember that it consumes a lot of energy to do what it does.
via Gfycat  Mobile phones and cell towers emit harmless, non-ionizing radiation with an intensity that is much lower than that of a known harmful threshold. This emission is at least 400-600 times less than what you would expect from a microwave oven. It's so low that you might as well worry that the electromagnetic radiation from your bulb causes cancer.
Like a senior radiologist Bhavin Jankharia says, "There is absolutely no data that suggests that mobile towers produce [harmful] radiation – as they are today or in the last 8 to 10 years. "This also applies to smartphones. If you connect a Geiger counter to a mobile phone, you will not hear an ominous tick.
The Statista report on mobile phone radiation is alarming
If you've been tracking the news recently, you'd have noticed articles with alarmist headlines and excerpts in which he talked about how OnePlus and Xiaomi are harmful Send radiation values.
"Will you buy a phone that emits most of the radiation even then it's cheap?" Asks a website. "Reports over the years have shown that prolonged exposure to radiation from smartphones is usually the reason for the blood-brain barrier, affecting head tumors and also male fertility. "Says another.
We will spare These publications blush by using their names (Note: Google) However, the fact remains that there is not a single comprehensive, science-based study that confirms these allegations, if anything, studies say that the opposite is the case
More infographics can be found at Statista
Back to the report Statista has compiled a list of emitting smartphones that has been tested by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection). The list shows the specific absorption rate (SAR) of each phone tested. The SAR is a measure of the rate at which radiation is absorbed by the human body in terms of power per tissue mass (W / kg). Again, it should be noted that the measured radiation is from the harmless variety non-ionizing radiation which was appropriately ignored by other reports.
According to Statista report the Xiaomi Mi A1, the Mi Max 3, the OnePlus 5T and the OnePlus 6T radiate the most radiation (from 1.55 W to 1.78 W) , especially not) order).
India and the US, both of which have some of the world's most stringent radiological compliance regulations have achieved an acceptable SAR of 1.6 W / kg. In Germany, where the Federal Office for Radiation Protection is located, the limit is 2 W / kg. While it may still seem that Xiaomi and OnePlus disobey Indian and US standards, this report by Times of India indicates that the variants sold in India have a lower SAR and fully comply with Indian laws.  As stated by [Federal Communications Commission (FCC)] "Many people mistakenly believe that using a mobile phone with a lower SAR value will inevitably reduce a user's exposure or somehow be 'safer' than a cell phone with a mobile phone high SAR value. "
Again, the SAR value measured by the FCC, TRAI, and others Organizations is just a measure of the peak radiation that a mobile emits at some point during the test. Basically:
- Mobile phones and cell towers emit harmless, non-ionizing radiation
- Under extreme circumstances, non-ionizing radiation can lead to local heating.
- The SAR limit set by India, the US and other governments. is well below the level at which non-ionizing radiation can damage biological tissue
- The SAR limit set by the FCC and TRAI is NOT an indicator of the radiation emitted under real conditions.
Another factor that has been ignored In news reports is the fact that Europe uses a different average volume for measuring SAR than countries like India and the US – 10 g in Europe versus 1 g in India and the US. In other words, the test procedure differs slightly, which will lead to different results.
The report Statista does not mention the average volume of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection. In other words, stop worrying about "carcinogenic" cell phones, and instead focus on something that's really important, such as what you care for that special person on that Valentine's Day to get.
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